You are here: Home / News / We’ll not support Jonathan in 2015 –Northern elders

We’ll not support Jonathan in 2015 –Northern elders

July 9, 2013 : John Alechenu, Godwin Isenyo and Olalekan Adetayo

Prof. Ango Abdullahi | credits: File copy

The Northern Elders’ Forum on Monday said that the North would not support President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election.

The spokesman for the group, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, while reacting to a statement by the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Babangida Aliyu.

Aliyu, had in Minna on Sunday, said the North would negotiate with candidates contesting the 2015 presidential election.

He denied saying only a northerner should emerge as President in 2015.

Abdullahi said, “My part of the North will not support him (Jonathan). The South owe us a moral debt and they should pay.

“They seem to be forgetting the moral debt they owe us. There is nothing personal against the person of President Goodluck Jonathan. There is something wrong with the system that threw him up against equity and justice.”

The NEF spokesman said that people should have the courage to acknowledge equity and justice.

He stated, “The Northern Elders Forum has no political party. This is something that you should remember. The various northern groups including the ACF (Arewa Consultative Forum) have no political party.

“What we have are political interests and it is on these political interests that we are going to direct our energies. At the moment our political interest, based on equity and justice rests with the North.

“When I say we will not support him, it is not because he is Jonathan or that he is Ijaw. What we are saying is that we will look at the issues at stake and throw our weight where there will be equity.”

Abdullahi said that the North had not been treated fairly.

According to him, the NEF has no political party or presidential candidate for now.

The NEF spokesman added that there were no contradictions in the comments made by Aliyu and his Jigawa State counterpart, Sule Lamido.

Lamido had in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, said that the Peoples Democratic Party presidential ticket was not a guarantee that Jonathan would win the 2015 poll.

Abdullahi said, “There is no contradiction in the position of the North. If you read what Babangida Aliyu said correctly, he said the North will negotiate the Presidency in 2015.

“It does not foreclose the emergence of a northern candidate. I don’t know in what context (Sule) Lamido spoke but I know he knows what he is talking about.

“It is a fact that even when a candidate emerges on the platform of a party there is no guarantee that he will win the election in a free and fair contest.”

He recalled that the North supported zoning in 1999. This, he said, was to enable all parts of the country to have a sense of belonging.

Abdullahi said, “It was the Northern Elders Forum that supported the election of the President from the Southern part of the country, first for four years and secondly for another four years.

“We are not talking as if other parts of the country have no rights. We ceded our rights and supported their aspirations, and therefore, what we are saying is that for equity, fairness and balance, it is about time that there is a payback based on the kind of system so that people will not misunderstand us.”

The Presidency on Monday said Jonathan was ready to negotiate with the North and other zones in the country if he decided to contest the 2015 presidential election.

Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Dr. Ahmed Gulak, said this in an interview with one of our correspondents.

Gulak spoke in reaction to Aliyu’s comment on Sunday.

The presidential aide said that as far as Jonathan was concerned, politics was about extension of olive branches to all stakeholders and building bridges.

He said the President was favourably disposed to negotiating with any bloc or zone in order to move the nation forward.

Gulak said, “Politics is about power; it is about extending olive branches; it is about consultation and it is about building bridges.

“President Jonathan is ready and always willing to negotiate with any bloc or zone in order to move the nation forward.

“Politics is about discussing with stakeholders, all zones, all blocs and all states. He will do this should he decide to contest in 2015.”

Meanwhile, the ACF on Monday said the north was not insisting on a northern president in 2015.

The National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Mr. Anthony Sani, who said this in an interview with one of our correspondents in Kaduna, said the North, like other regions, would contest the presidency in 2015.

Sani said that there was nothing wrong with the statement credited to Aliyu that the region was ready to negotiate the 2015 poll.

The ACF spokesman said that the zoning formula had been killed and buried by the 2011 elections.

Sani stated, “I think Governor Aliyu Babangida is not wrong precisely because politics of zoning has been killed and buried by the results of elections in 2011 when Nigerians voted against politics of zoning.

“Where that is the case, the North will be expected to canvass for the presidency like any other sections of the country. In that case, there is nothing like North insisting on the presidency, but it will be left for dynamics of democracy to determine.”

The ACF’s spokesman said the South used annulment of June 12, 1993 election to morally blackmail the North into accepting zoning.

He stated, “When the time came for the turn of the North, then suddenly constitutionalism and politics of merit supplanted zoning. What is more? Nigerians voted against politics of zoning in 2011.

“As democrats, ACF and northern leaders accepted the judgment of Nigerians in accordance with democratic tenets which demand that majority has its say and way while minority only has its say.

“In proper democracy premised on triple foundation of liberty, justice and common decency, there cannot be insistence.”

Sani blamed the media for reporting that the North wanted power returned to it as a birth right.

Lets wait and see 2015! Maybe your statistical analysis will be relevant. Jzun mad a ignificant point but you losses over it!

ManOfSteel69

How can you forget ABACHA THE BARBARIAN

Ide4u

He has no brain like his big uncle in Aso Rock

Tito

That tells you the kind of brain deri is carrying in his skul.deri deri

fakoo

What right do u have to call obasanjo a thief when the biggest gentle thief is still on the throne. Most of you on this page talk abt obj as if he is the worst. This fool on the throne is the worst nigeria has ever had.

Godwin

READ DERI COMMENT WELL B/4 INSULTING HIM.obj IS NOT THE ONLY THIEF HE CALL THERE.

Tony

the foolish illiterate who calls himself professor A go never know the meaning of equity and justice, he must be IDIOT of the century for demanding that power should go back to the north again after they have ruled for years without making any meaningful impact

jzun

see what GEJ has caused for himself unnecessarily? if he had not marginalized the SW, by now he is supposed be snoring at such threats from the north. However; in his political naivety, he antagonised the SW making north+SW coalition likely. If you add Six state from SW plus Kwara plus the 12 states that voted for Buhari in 2011; that is 19 states.
Jona,correct your ways.

deri

how did GEJ marginalize the SW/? Was it not tinubu who imposed tambuwal on us as speaker-was the position not zoned to the south west-why did they not fight for it-instead they allowed tinubu to ditch them-now they blame jonathan-for their own follies-don’t we have ijaws in the south west-have the yoruba given consideration to them for one day-all they do is to abuse jonathan-for the fulani north-were the 10 yoruba traders killed by ijaws in the south west-

Edu/Stuttsgat

Yorobas will tell you that the Creek Monkeys did not respect OBJ enough. That was why the Otta Farmer abdicated (to his regret) his throne as Chairman Board of Trustees of PDP

Afam

Mr go and blame your people,Tinubu and his boys…When tinubu thinks that fighting PDP candidate for house reps speaker non of you guys said anything about it…SW are the people marginalizing themselves..

jzun

at Afam and Deri; I have said it before, particularly in response to Deri; Yorubas turned speakership down because what we are entitled to in this dispensation is senate presidency not speakership.

we are ready to move forward from there because, what it means is that he if we can maneuver well; then we can get back to Aso rock out of turn.

Also; it should be remembered that at every PDP convention, the Igbos presented a candidate against Obj.

Just remember that when a Yoruba man become president again.

specifically at direct talk; plateau and Benue did not vote Buhari in 2011, so they are not part of the 12 that I counted for Buhari and also they do not make up part of the 19 total; that I talked about.

Okoko

You are not different from Ango who talks only about region. What does it profit you if your tribe was given the so called senate president whom you cannot cross the road to his house. Your brother, OBJ was there for 8yrs. Point to us the tangible thing he did for you in SW. Does senate president make law for only SW or one region? What we need is Nigerian leader, not regional leader, if this marriage must continue.

jzun

courtesy is a very important factor in relationships of all kind. depriving the SW of senate presidency is discourteous.

to come to your statement of Nigeria needing a national leader; If you will be honest you will observe that it is GEJ sensationalist policies that have contributed most in puting GEJ’s second term in jeopardy.

a case in point was the first quarter of the 2012; when GEJ approved 800billion naira worth of contracts and about two-thirds were for projects in SS alone. that is lopsided.

Nigeria made about $100 billion in 2012 alone from sale of petroleum alone (note that that roughly what Abacha made from petroleum through out his 5 years in govt) if we condemn Abach’s govt then we should condemn GEJ’s govt 5 times over because GEJ is making about 5 times what Abacha was making in the 90s.

However, SS people feel because GEJ his their son, nobody must question his misrule.

There is a lot I could say, but the summary is that GEJ faile to perform necessitating him playing the politics of regional balance properly but he failed in this too. That is the only reason a man that had an overwhelming victory is unpopular two years on.

GEJ is the architect of his problems, and the attitude and the militant reaction of the average SS GEJ supporter only goes on to provoke further hostility for GEJ.

Some say Obj was god when in power; my response is: that was only in Obj’s 2nd term after he had played the fool in his first term.

GEJ got into power and has been rushing in, where angels fear to thread. the problems he faces are a consequence of his inexperience and the political inexperience of his close confidants.

Ann

That’s not a valid point. We all know why Nigerians voted massively for Jonathan against the northern Buhari. It was to correct the years of neglect and marginalisation against the south-south so why should anyone complain when he tries to accomplish this assignment?

I just believe that anyone talking like this has never been to a place like Bayelsa. I was once privileged to take a tour of the islands and mainlands there for just a week. that was before Jonathan. Luckily there were some Alhajis with us and we visited some chiefs.

At the end of the 1st day, it was a consensus that something needed to be done fast about the place. Old men fought tears that day and i’ll never forget it.This is the place where Nigeria is fed and clothed from but the people cannot build houses on the swamp, nor fish in the rivers because the fish were all killed off by oil spillage. The water is not potable but they must drink it or die of thirst. The land cannot be farmed, equally polluted. The air, unbreathable. No roads because it would take trillions to construct bridges to the hinterlands. A journey from Ogbia to Nembe took 3 hours by engine boat and a bridge across those creeks would be like 3rd mainland bridge multiplied by 20.

Then the people must import everything they eat, drink, use and wear from the East. Purchasing everything at exorbitant prices due to 2nd, 3rd and 4th intermediaries before it gets to the villages of Bayelsa.

Are you in Lagos, Ogun, Enugu, Owerri, Abuja or Kano sleeping in a comfortable mansion and thinking of building another on a nearly land you bought? Be informed that in BAYELSA, it would cost you 30 million just to reclaim the swamp before talking of building.

May God bless every man, woman and child from Bayelsa State who has made this huge sacrifice, not to talk of those killed by Abacha and Yar’Adua’s bomb to quell the youths fighting for their rights.

Edu/Stuttsgat

You will mistaken for Comrade Joseph Eva Sister

Edu/Stuttsgat

And the Kleptomaniac embarked on massive transformation of the land as GEJ is doing?

Ann

Presented a candidate against OBJ. And who are the people that voted OBJ into power? Not the Igbos? was it the South West then? Hmmm, I don’t see your point my friend.

Edu/Stuttsgat

What is the percentage of Yoroba PDP members in NASS that the position of Senate Presidency should be given to you after your OBJ just left Aso Villa?

who told you that Benue and Plateau will support the Hausa/Fulani North if not for rigging. Hausa/Fulani may have conquered Kwara state/people but not Benue and Plateau. Further instead of talking about David Mark being the next president they are talking about muslim Tambuwal. I personally prefer Tambuwal to David Mark but those supporting Tambuwal have ulterior motives. It is either Jonathan or somebody from present political South East or any person from Delta State or Urhobo person. No to muslim/Islamist Hausa/Fulani North.

concern

a full blooded evil biafran to be president of nigeria ? keep dreaming

declare d evil republic of biafra now ! evil children of biafra forcing themselves on us. If u pack your stuff and leave lagos and all other Yoruba capitals that u live, who is going to stop u ? when u go to your village to visit or on Xmas period, who stops u; so why cant u jus go now and when u and all your evil kinfolks leave our land, then we know u have biafra without shedding a drop of blood. Its not by force, no one is stopping u from leaving Oyo, Ogun, Oshun, Lagos, Ondo and Ekiti. So its easy to have biafra if truly you seek d evil republic and no one wants u anywhere on their land anyway. Fualnis dont want, Yorubas dont, Hausas cant stand u in their land and a true sth sthners will rather die than been called a biafran bcos its a symbol of evil. So what benefit is it then of tolerating u in our land all these yrs ? u bring nothing but sorrow infesting our land with evil ways of life. Hard drugs & fake pharmaceuticals (these two acts of pure evil have killed more ppl on d planet than any act of genocide ever recorded in the history of mankind); u breed human babies to sell rituals, cliford orji represents d perfect image of what evil biafrans are and I wonder what other form of evil can u come up with, it was in d evil land d other day that river ezu in anambra was flowing with bodies of 60 young men all of a sudden, any form of evil not yet thought of is what evil biafrans are capable,What about armed robberies, kidnapping and d rest of it. So when u go imminently, our land will be free of pure evil and image of d country nigeria will redeemed automatically almost 100 % over night bcos fraudsters and evil drug pushers caught abroad are over 90% evil biafrans. So what benefit is it to nigeria having evil biafrans as tolerated citizens. No other tribe in nigeria lives in d evil landlocked region of biafra i.e abia, anambra, imo, enugu and ebonyi. what benefit are u ? absolutely zero.

Ann

Oh but you are already being ruled by a Biafran. Abi you are so illiterate that you did not read in your primary school history that Bayelsa, part of the old Rivers State was part of Biafra during the war? See mumu, Biafra is ruling the country for now. Haua/Foolani should take it or cut out. But of course we know you will all turn to beggers like your brothers from Niger Republic and Chad if the country should break up. Poor, poor you. Don’t worry, we understand.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The tribal bigot refused to see the reality of ground

Edu/Stuttsgat

You are too sore afraid to stand on your feet Yoroba

Ann

Wake up from your slumber. All the middle belt has declared for Jonathan. May i remind you that those are the populations that the north has been using for years to dominate us but marginalising their people? As for the South West, you guys should ask your legislators in the House of Reps why they cast their votes for Tambuwal and rejected the zoning formula of the PDP which Jonathan had insisted that the position belongs to the South West.

The South West prides itself of being liberal, very learned and not caring where a leader comes from . For this reason, they backed Tambuwal, believing he is a better candidate for speaker. By that act, they labelled Jonathan a tribal, regional politician. I therefore wonder why so many of you are coming out now to claim your region was shortchanged in the scheme of things. Honestly, i believe there is a lack of consensus somewhere.

Edu/Stuttsgat

They are playing their clannish politrics. Hallmarks of Yorobas

deri

THE MAN NEEDS TO HAVE HIS SOUL RE-EXAMINED-TALKING ABOUT EQUITY AND JUSTICE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF OIL WELLS MAY BE–VERY GREEDY FOLKS THE SOUTH SOUTH SUPPORTED THE FULANI NORTH FOR OVER 40 YRS-THE RESULT IS THE INSULTS WE GET FROM THEM DAILY-HOW CAN A SANE GROUP BE TALKING ABOUT THEIR DESIRES ALONE-THE NORTH THIS AND THAT-

ozaluoku

Abdullahi said, “My part of the North will not support him (Jonathan). The South owe us a moral debt and they should pay.

“They seem to be forgetting the moral debt they owe us. There is nothing personal against the person of President Goodluck Jonathan. There is something wrong with the system that threw him up against equity and justice.”

three major tribes..one has been short changing the other for so long..what of the south east.or arent they part of the system? mr professor…and u preach moral and equity..stupid analysis..

TrueTalk

Let this older man sleep Nigerians are tired of regional and tribal politics all we need now is to support the president so that we can move from this darkness.

bontus

sani,aliyu ango…saying different things..north is just confused

why is punch blocking comments

Can boko haram send a suicide bomber to pay this baga a visit. Why must see this malu be on the papers. NOBODY NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT. STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE.

Peter2000

Gboyega Okunniga

Unguarded statement like this is what will guarantee the return of Goodluck Jonathan. Mark my word, in 2015,JEG will be returned by many Nigerians, not because they like his style or because he deserves it, no, they will vote him back just to spite the likes of Ango
Abdullahi and his “North” And if care is not taken, Ango Abdullahi’s “North” may wait till thy Kingdom come before sniffing Aso Rock again

tingase

even at his age..this man fails to understand we have moved forward..let the fallen tell him..babangidas abachas buharis and other failures

Afam

When old man is due to rest in peace but he has decided to play dirty politics with innocent lives been killed by boko haram…I wonder the equity and justice this old man is talking about..Equity and justice when North have ruled this country for 38 years.?GEJ has 2 years to deliver if he can,Nigerians will vote the devil they know than Angel they don’t.

Oguamanam Uzochukwu

NEF is devided. Northing remain for. Them again. They are just fools.

Joseph gardner

You are fool bcs I believe your parents are prostitute,if not how dear you call people that are your leaders fools.?uzochukwu I didn’t mean to abuse but a respond to your comment pls.

genuinely

Point of correction, they are his elders and not his leaders. All the same, nobody should insult his/her elder.

Prof. Peter Nwangwu

If educated people from the North can think and talk regional politics the way Prof. Ango Abdullahi did in this publication, then there is no hope for Nigeria. The geographical mistake called Nigeria is dead and should be buried, so the regional entities can determine their respective destinies. If an educated professor who once served as a vice chancellor can be this primitive in his thinking, how do you expect the narrow-minded, uneducated illiterates to think? Why are we so region-conscious in Nigeria? Where is the national identity and patriotism? What is wrong with finding the most capable and honourable Nigerian with impeccable integrity to serve as President, regardless of his region or religion? With the predominant mind-set of most Nigerians leaning on regional bias, including the educated and professors among them, it is very clear that the bad mistake of bringing groups of immiscible people together for colonial administrative convenience by Britain is an unfortunate error that should not be perpetuated. South should no longer cheat North or West, and West should no longer cheat North or East. Dissolve the failed experiment called Nigeria.

abiodun johnson

Prof. Peter Nwangwu, the post below by a poster named Akara corroborates your view, the post was in response to another poster named Aghata Ajayi.

“You are wrong.. Nigeria actually needs regional backing, the regions in
Nigeria and the diversity is very different. While in some places the people
want criminals like drug-pushers and corrupt politicians prosecuted, some other
regions do not want such.

Therefore Nigeria, can only survive based on regionalism which a true
federalism will provide. Or split the country into autonomous countries.

Anyone talking about some regions not surviving if Nigeria splits are just
delusional. Nigeria needs to split into autonomous countries, or organize a
constitutional conference of all regions and their genuine representatives to
map out conditions for mutual co-existence……..” Akara.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

I’ve said it in my own posts several times that Nigerians are not one, I’ve even gone as far as posting that black people in general have problems with unity and co existence.

Prof. Amarya

I think spiritually and technically, Nigeria is already divided, we are only waiting for final dissolution. shame on some people calling themselves elders.

Ayour Pee

Prof …. am surprised that you are a Prof from the East and you are here attacking the North for playing regional politics when it is your eastern brothers that are the master of Regional politics. Do you spare little time to read posts of your people on the internet? Do u listen to their contributions on the radio? I quite agree with you that Nigeria is spiritually and technically divided …. we are prepared! …. By the way I am a proud Yoruba!!!

EFOSA

u are now sounding like ‘Angle’ Abdulahi! highlighting the situation by your reasoning, comment, and conclusion. RUBBISH

akara

He has only spoken the truth.. Ndigbo have exposed themselves..

Babsolu

No, you are wrong, you need to read the history of what led to the civil war to know that Hausa/Fulanis are bastards and animals, it is good that the monster they created is turning on them.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The typical Yoroba hypocrite casting aspersion on Ndigbo who are working hard to keep Nigeria together ala Major General Ihejirika, Iron Lady Okonjo Iweala et al.
The Foolani Muslims created Mass Murdering Boko Haram while the Ako Bata Foolanis are loudest in the opposition to pull GEJ down
Why is the call for regionalism so loud these days because a minority occupies Aso Villa?

saidu hamman

Your minority did not put himself at Aso Rock, it is the handwork the so-called majority, the military born politicians that collaborated from all regions to put GEJ at Aso Rock. These internet political warriors are fighting in the blues. You should endeavour to know your environment.

Edu/Stuttsgat

What are you? Cyber Trojan Horses?

tony are

These are software that go into your computer (as you visit a site) and send your personal information to someone else. Trojan is about an ancient Greek war where a giant wooden horses was sent as a gift to a town but the enemies didn’t know it was full of soldiers who later came out to destroy the their town from inside. That’s what Trojan means = discretely destroy from inside

tony are

This the best comment here! People with brain do come here! God bless!

Babsolu

In as much as I will lk to agee with you, I do not blame the easterners for their agitation, you need to know what they experienced during the pogrom for you to agree with me. I pray we Yorubas dont experience such. Hausas are animals and should not have been part of Nigeria in the first place.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The Jagaban Tinuburuku must hear this

rose

Only if people like you exits in Yoruba on like Akara or Agidi abi moi-moi. Southern Nigeria could have been strong hood and kick-out this ‘blood sucking demons backward Northern Nigeria’ and may be form Republic of Southern Nigeria for the interest of peace loving southerners.

adefowora

Igbos are the cause of their own misfortune. Hero and money worship is their undoing

Edu/Stuttsgat

Who is worshipping the fraudster Jagaban Tinuburuku? Yorobas
Who is applauding the Angst in Abdulahi? Yorobas

tony are

..lol…Prof. Ayour Pee….you are now professor….I made you one! lol

Ubanka GEJ

Yes, including people like Clark of south-south

real

so, what about the IRA (Ireland) and Britain? What led to the split of Soviet union, Bosnia Herzegovina? Czech, former Yugoslavia? What of Asia? and what about Scotland saying they want referendum to segregate from Britain? Verify your information before you write.
The problem is ‘born to rule’ and now the hunted is now the hunted in Nigeria

Edu/Stuttsgat

Their elites were ready for the dissolution mates. Nigerian elites are not for split. They still thrive on Niger Delta Black Gold. So long live Nigeria. Any frustrated alien should scurry to Chad or Niger or Badagry Republic

So you are now advocating regional backing and power sharing? How come Abayoni? Were you and akara not the same ones who have been on this forum pretending you support better governance no matter where it comes from? I always say that there are people on this forum who are like water.

Now all of a sudden, because an obviously APC-inclined group have come out to openly vouch for the regionalism you guys have been kicking against, making it quite clear they care for nothing except that power must return to the north, you and akara have suddenly gone on research to discover the merits of zoning.

Anyway, i support zoning and in that light, the South-South zone must get their fair share of 8 years just like the South West did. Then since the Middle Belt forum has seen fit to throw its weight behind Jonathan’s presidency in 2015, the South South and South East shall equally back them in 2019.

Yes power will return to the north in the spirit of equity but if the Hausa/Fulani think it will be their turn once again, they will first of all prove to the rest of us that they have a monopoly of intelligence in northern Nigeria.

akara

Yes Ann There is no change in my opinion. For a united Nigeria yes, a better government is definately a good deal. And GEJ has the best opportunity to provide an improved government that can provision benefits to at least 95% of Nigerians, before 2015..

If it takes 6years to build 24hrs stable electricity as some pro-GEJ suporters have claimed, from basic arithmetic, if it costs $10 billion to provide, 10,000MW in 6years, then $30billion should be able to do this in 2years..

But GEJ’s incompetence has shown that that Nigeria needs regional governments, where the south-south keep and control their oil resources 100%, the North, the south-west, the south-south e.t.c can also keep their own resources to themselves. And especially reduce the immigrants from SS and SE especially that are straining the over-stretched resources in the South-west especiall Lagos.

Last I checked no region in Nigeria that cannot be independent. Nigeria is one of the few countries in the world where almost 99% of our agricultural produce is organic. Any Nigerian in the diaspora has to agree that even this organic food can fetch 3 times the income from oil if well managed.. And that’s just an icing on the cake compared to the potential of the resources in Nigeria..

For now I rest my case.. A united Nigeria needs sincere leaders and government representatives without which, only a regional government can save Nigeria, to prevent violent conflict.

It is not possible to integrate Nigeria yet at this stage of our development, economic and social co-operation needs to be developed between regions first.. The various peoples in Nigeria need to understand each other and develop genuine appreciation for themselves. And this can only be achieved when, regional governments of a true confederation are allowed to prosper..

I repeat again, GEJ, SS keep you OILEE MONIES to yourselkves.. If OILEE MONEY was used in feeding Nigerians, how come majority of Nigerians are in poverty, and crime , also other vices like kidnapping are so rampant and wide-spread?

Nigeria does not refine her own crude oil, therefore the only way to keep a stable price for refined oil products like petrol, kerosene e.t.c is by using a subsidy.

Even non-oil producing countries like Japan have fuel-subsidies too. Even Dangote subsidizes his products, MTN, GLO also subsidize their services.. If you want to go full-scale then every product or service you purchase is subsidized and not only with oilee money that we have subsidies..

The cost of having your hair trimmed in Europe is over twice the amount in Nigeria. So are you aware that even Nigerian barbers carpenters, mechanics, tailors are also subsidizing their services???? What kind of country exports it’s raw crude-oil and imports refined products, and then claims it is providing benefits to it’s citizens by subsidizing the cost of the imports??????

There is a lot more to Nigeria and Nigerians than OILEE MONIES and some uneducated NDIGBO whims and caprices… Let everyone go back to develop their own regions, and make the kind of laws agreeable with the majority of people in that region.

At the rate he is going GEJ will lose 2015 elections.. The best you can do now is for either GEJ to step up his performance or colaborate withe the legislatures to work towards the development of regional governments.

Because if GEJ and SS are depending on militants like Asari Dokubo and Tompolo to forment trouble in Nigeria..

lolxxx.. I can’t shout.. 2015 is not very far off..

Ann

Like i asked you before Akara, where is the connection between your advocacy for excellence and regional politics that you have taken up today? Singing from both sides of the mouth as usual. Remember the topic of discussion today is regional power sharing proposed by Prof. Ango which you decided to support out of the blues.

If this lousy Omo Yoroba could channel this boundless energy into positive use, Nigeria would move mountains. Alas the Ako Bata Foolanis believes in outdated regionalism, jettisoning main stream politrics simply on the plank that Yoroba OBJ no longer occupies the warm comfort of Aso Villa.
We are in convergence that the loamy soil of the north still supports groundnut while the acidic Yoroba soil ensures cocoa production, why are your greedy eyes still focussed firmly on the Niger Delta oil?
What a waste of resource on you brother

BENGHAZI

You’ve said it all. Akara. If people could reason very well,they will realized that none of Nigerian leaders care for the masses except themselves and their party. We thank God we still have some people who speak the THRUTH. My own contribution is not all about names,but our exposure/reasoning within the resent time is too speedy compared to 10years ago. Before we could be on thesame level with what is going in this contemporary world, we really need a ”Young GOOD” Leader who can stand for his citizens,who could challenge the western world,not the the one that will be borrowing money/taking order from the western world,without any means of paying back. Beside why should nigeria be borrowing money,despite been endowed with natural resources.

tony are

Has Jonathan spent 6yrs? It cost much to generate power in Nigeria because there’s no good distribution network. Can you imagine installing a cable 2000 miles? If you ask decent electrician he will tell you there is nothing call manage in electric distribution. If you manage, you will have problem, that is transformer blowing up or cable cut etc. If you need 0.5mm cable to transfer new power across the country, that what you have to do. So, imagine if the current cable will have is 0.3mm? Can you imagine how much job you gotta do?
Problem among young Nigerians is they like to talk about things they know little about

Edu/Stuttsgat

That is why they are Ako Bata Foolanis

Edu/Stuttsgat

As the East is different from the West so the North from South is manifested in all facet of our lies. Be that as it may, our spiritual, political and social elites are united in pauperising the masses for their selfish ends. So call for autonomy must be ignored because it is coming at the instance of ethnic bigots wit born to rule mentality. GEJ will continue till 2019 with emergency rule extended till the recalcitrant Mindless Mass Murderers Boko Haram and their sponsors are decimated by the Joint Task Force
Nigeria we hail thee. Our dear native land. Though tribe and tongue may differ in brotherhood we stand
Long live GEJ
Long live Nigeria

The good The bad The ugly

Nice encapsulated by Prof. Peter. and the likes of abiodun johson I say this time, u got it right.

ade okeke

I agree

Ahiara John

Thank you Prof Nwangwu. The Prof. from North is after my region and not my Nation. Too bad! That was the parting gift from British Colonialist.

Fox Oxymoron

Perhaps President Jonathan is our own Mikhael Gorbachev sent to oversee the dismantling of this bogus colonial contraption called Nigeria.

Edu/Stuttsgat

Via decimation of Mass Murdering Boko Haram by Joint Task Force?

Joseph Gardner

Prof,you can help us do the dissolve pls with immediate effect pls and pls,and if you decide I assure you that no looser.txs

http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/ Udoabasi

I am surprise that you have been following the politics of Nigeria as played by the shameful majority anew. Welcome on board wherever you are on earth and you will know Hausa/Fulani better. First, an idiot amongst them who feel he is better than you and your status will scold you from your great grand parents to your immediate parents and to your qualifications.
Last week you posted something and it appeared as though you just touched the ground called Nigeria. Welcome to the reality of Northern politics and one Nigeria.
With the gangsters like Prof. Ango, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, Ciroma, IBB, Atiku, Tambuwal, Aliyu, you will know our politics. Welcome Prof.

paul

When this cow offspring started using the word equity and
justice which they never believe

Toneph

Nigeria is a failed State, if it has ever existed. This is the kind of politics Awo played, and the people of his extraction are still holding sway. The north as well has been doing same, no region is spared. We have never been one, and we can never be one. This unholy matrimony is terminally ill. indeed waiting for euthanasia.

Femi Pedro

Looks like the spirit of a dream patriot is hunting your tribal ego. Good luck to you

Edu/Stuttsgat

We could help ourselves mate. The word is haunting

sondoinah

“Dissolve the failed experiment called Nigeria”. This captures the feasible solution to the myraid of problems confronting us. However, those benefitting would not allow it. Let us wait till 2014 when each federating unit could opt out of the union peacefully if not satisfied after one hundred (100) years of co-existence as contained in the amalgamation law of 1914.

Prof. Amarya

I think spiritually and technically, Nigeria is already divided, we are only waiting for final dissolution. shame on some people calling themselves

Edu/Stuttsgat

The parasitic North will never embark on that dangerous path

emeka

My dear Prof. Nwangwu, the prof from the north is right. It is natural that people defend the interest of their regions because Nigeria is a mere geographical entity made up various nations forced to be one.
Nigeria is not one, has never been one and will never be one. The British joined a group of people that has no historical, cultural and religious similarities together just for their own administrative and economic convenience. All there is to Nigeria is geographical contiguity.
In this age and time people like OBJ, IBB that are benefitting from the lopsided political structure wants us to believe that it is God that joined us together, and there is nothing we can do to correct the obvious anomalies scattered in this unholy union. These group of men have done everything humanly possible to frustrate the restructuring of Nigeria to ensure equity to every stake holder.
Don’t forget that countries like Pakistan insisted and broke away from India because the British amalgamation does not suit their interest. Bangladesh also broke away from Pakistan. How about the division of the two Sudans in our own back yard. Even developed countries, Sweden and Norway had to split to move forward, as well as Denmark and Iceland. In Canada the Quebec region is also clamouring to go it alone.
Even the British that amalgamated us are beginning to question their own amalgamation hence Scotland is voting in a referendum in 2016 to determine if they still want to be part of the UK. Why cant we in this forced marriage that is called Nigeria be given that opportunity to determine our destinies as enshrined in the UN charter.
So if the North wants sharia and boko haram to be fulcrum of their existence, they should be allowed to have it in their own independent country. While the rest of us will also have own country where the rule of law, respect of sanctity of life, pursuance and achieving excellence in western education including utilising the proceeds of our natural resources within our boundaries will be the order of the day. It is called self determination.
Nigeria as presently constituted and run is unworkable. it is a recipe for disaster, a ticking time bomb, laziness, squandermania and everything negative.

T-boy

@Emeka, honestly I don’t find the peace and joy to comment on issues on this blog or any other Nigerian blog just because of the way our people polarized issues along tribal and religion. But your contribution won my heart of heart. You are a different person in your reasoning in that you tried as much as possible to identify and understand the fear of the commentator and that of others in the entity called Niger-Area (Nigeria). No attack on the personality of anybody, tribe/ethnic or religion.
Thank you.

Ann

Yes he is right. But why have they been accusing the south-south of regional politics when we only borrowed a leaf from their long-standing values? I maintain that whenever you hear a Hausa/Fulani man advocating equity, you should beware. It means that they are being given a taste of their own medicine and they can’t take it. Coupled with the belief that they are more entitled to leadership than other zones, who can be surprised that they are crying of being shortchanged.

Abeg make i hear word.

frank

The word EQUITY has been massively abused here like many other lexicons that has crossed our way. To the Hausa Fulani man, equity means nothing other than Hausa man being in charge They have been so much in charge that they cant stand any other than themselves Even if you allocate 90% of the resources to them and they are not the ones calling the shot they will still feel marginalized

Edu/Stuttsgat

Do not mind the bloody parasitic Foolanis

Tonnero

Your idiocy is only exceeded by your verbosity.

Edu/Stuttsgat

Who is talking of equity after Foolanis held the nation to stand still for thirty eight years?
Who is talking of equity when the Parasitic Foolanis control 85% of oil block?
Who is talking of equity when quota system is skewed in favour of the lazy Foolanis?
If Prof Angst is not comfortable with the status quo let him hurry off to Chad or Niger Republic where he rightly belongs. We do not desire his types in the Federal Republic of Nigeria our dear native land. Though tribes and tongues may differ, in brotherhood we stand
Long live Nigeria
Long live GEJ

Edu/Stuttsgat

Why is the call for regionalism coming now? is it because a minority sits in the warm comfort of Aso Villa? Any alien who is not comfortable with the arrangement should scurry to Chad, Niger or Benin Republic. Your brothers will welcome you there

Femi Pedro

Prescribing deliverance by death is the hallmark of failed doctor doom. Got it? Mr professor?

Prof. Peter Nwangwu

Mr. Femi Pedro, a doctor does not prescribe death for the dead, but a doctor knows that the only thing to do with the dead is bury it. Got it?

Femi Pedro

Failure is a result of giving up. Giving up is a symptom of the hindered, the short sighted and the hopeless. Fighting spirit and easy life are always at odds

Isaac

Sometimes, success is measured by calculated withdrawal (giving up). This is most appropriate in the case of Nigerian amalgamation, which has been tried for a century without success. Look, you don’t have to search too far for the problem: Nigeria was amalgamated for ease of governance by colonial masters, and now must divide because that purpose has been served. THE QUESTION FOR YOU IS: WHY ARE YOU (AND MANY ALIKE!) AVERSE TO NIGERIA’S BALKANISATION?
We have tried togetherness (imposed on us!) and have grown farther apart and its not working. IS THIS CLEAR TO YOU?

akara

You have said it all.. Autonomous countries or regions is the way forward…

Edu/Stuttsgat

No more Arewa Peoples Congress (APC)?

Femi Pedro

I don’t know where you are from but may I ask you one question how sure are you that your region will be united if Nigeria breaks especially the South South and South East and middle belt.

Ann

And how did 11 countries break out of former USSR and have continued to exist independently till today? What is your problem? Go and worry about your own problem and let others worry about theirs Mr. Busybody.

Edu/Stuttsgat

Are you sore afraid to stand on your feet?

Edu/Stuttsgat

We are bonded for life

Edu/Stuttsgat

To which do the Yorobas belong currently?

wso

Prof. if Nigeria is already dead from your submission above,meaning you are living in the grave.Because the dead belongs to the sepulchre and you are occuping a space within Nigeria hence your assertion could be dangerous.May we not be a candidate in the grave.

I will rather charge us to begin to see a new Nigeria, it is possible and achievable.If we can see it, we can achieve it.The power of life and death is in the tongue.

Ann

Keep dreaming. It’s sometimes a cure for stress.

idongesit

Chief!!!!!! listen d North have been dancing on a wet grave 4 so long in this country call Nigeria. Imagine pple going as far as killing innocent pple and kids unprovoked!!!

wso

If few elements in the north have chosen to use the blood of innocent souls for ablution in name of religion, must we all get mad as they are?Whether we believe it or not everyone we all shall give account of our stewardship.Must we continue to ask for more blood since it seems it is becoming an eye for an eye.
May the Almighty God deliver this nation.

Edu/Stuttsgat

So if a patient is terminally ill you give the lethal injection? Poor doctor

genuinely

There is hope for Nigeria. Prof. Ango Abdullahi speaks for NEF and a pocket of his friends which doesn’t represent the views of the entire North. As you can see Sule Lamido is saying one thing, Babangida Aliyu is saying another, the views of ACF is different yet we have another position presented by Prof Ango Abdullahi. This is politics and there is nothing like oneness in politics. People are fighting for their interests. If you know that sone Bayelsans campaigned against Goodluck then you should understand what I am saying. It is all about personal interest.

No amount of rancour from the North will make the Vice-president say he will vacate his office and join the opposition against Mr.president, it will never happen. There are a lot of ministers from the North who will do anything possible to make sure their principal return. Are the supporters of Mr.president from the North semi-Northerners? Don’t lose a sleep over comments amount regional politics please.

emeka

My friend I do not share in your enthusiasm about hope for Nigeria when the foundation and structures does encourage equity, natural justice and good conscience. And those benefiting from this absurd situation has been vehemently defending the status quo.
Take for instance, in the last five years the 6 north eastern states has taken almost N500 billion from the federation account, and in that corresponding period, they have internally generated about N5 billion. Which represents 5% of what they had taken. If it was a business would it not have been dead long time ago.
In 1976, Lagos state was one state with 8 LGAs, as well as Sokoto with about 18 LGAs. Today Lagos still remains one state with about 20 LGAs while Sokoto has been divided into 3 states with about 70 LGAs all together. That means Sokoto gets three times from the federation account more than Lagos. But when you juxtapose what Lagos contribute to the federation account visa vis the three Sokoto states, Lagos contributes more than three of the Sokoto states and yet gets less. This is what their military boys achieved for them and yet they cry the loudest anytime political power leaves them briefly.
The members of house of reps from Kano state alone is greater than the members from the 5 southeastern states put together, so tell me how can a bill that will serve the interest of the south east go through easily in that house without the members from the southeast giving in to the whims and caprices of their northern counterparts.
Nothern states practices sharia and hence do not allow alcohol to be sold freely in their domain. But when the vat that is generated from the alcohol sale in the south is being shared, the Northern states gets a large share.
Recently, the federal govt. announced the citing of two fed.universities in each of the 3 geo-political zones of the north, while one each is cited in the remaining 3 geo political zones in the south despite the demand for higher education being very high in the south than the north. Hence a candidate from the south has to score 3 times higher than the candidate from the north to gain admission in the same university to study the same course.
Right from independence, southerners especially the Ibos, are always massacred in the north at the slightest provocation, sometimes there is no provocation all in the name of religion or politics. No meaningful arrests or prosecutions follows these ugly events.
The Northern leaders know very well that the end of Nigeria is near, that is why they are more interested in revenue sharing more than revenue generation. Because the rest of Nigeria are beginning to resist their arrogance, exploitative and born to rule attitude.
Oil revenue, is the only thing that is binding Nigeria together, and any day the oil wells run dry, your guess is as good as mine. Also we all know that if the oil was in the north, Nigeria would long have been history or if tomorrow oil is found in commercial quantity in the north that will be the end of Nigeria.
So my friend, I do not see what is informing your enthusiasm and hope in Nigeria.

Edu/Stuttsgat

With all the privileges skewed in the parasitic Foolanis’ favour are they contented? Never! Like Oliver Twist they still ask for more

Edu/Stuttsgat

With all the privileges and favours skewed in favour of the parasitic north, the Foolani is not contented. Like Oliver Twist they still ask for more

genuinely

I share in your feelings but u didn’t decipher all that I presented in my post. I said there is hope for Nigeria in response to a previous post and I believe there is hope for Nigeria because people, especially most Northerners have realized that their backwardness is home-breed and that is the beginning of emancipation and that is why u see them speaking in different tunes. I strongly believe that if this entity called Nigeria is to be broken up, it will occur peacefully without a drop of blood, that is the hope I am talking about. Nigerians will one day renegotiate their existence as a single entity and the time is very close. When it happens we all will be better off and so there is hope for Nigeria.

Edu/Stuttsgat

Are you seeing the wonderful transformations Nigeria is witnessing?
There is no longer monolithic north but behold a monolithic south west with the Jagaban Tinuburuku straddling the landscape with Iron Sceptre. Surprisingly, an Otuoke Waterfront Fisherman is calling the shots at Aso Villa
Who soever is not comfortable with the changed scenario should hurry off to Chad, Niger or Benin Republic

Raphael Invincible Ikyaabo

You do not understand the meaning of transformation. Let me hint you. How was state of things before Jonathan became the president? what was the position of agriculture? how was corruption? are people comfortable with his policies? If you look at this indices then you talk of transformation. What we are witnessing is backwardness.

Edu/Stuttsgat

You must have just landed from Mars mate

Okoko

The more issues arise in this country called Nigeria, the more I see that i looks like mixing oil and water which will eventually separate. The earlier we pass the mixture through an appropriate separating technique for the individual components to have peace, the better for them. We should not allow the molecules that make up the components to be deformed before we separate them.

ADAM JUNIOR

Leave the old man alone, old age has made him loose his sense of reasoning. He is not speaking for north, he is only speaking for Boko Haram enclave. I know people that when they speak in north I will take them serious.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The medics have a name for it. It is called senility. Hence the irrational and illogical vituperations from his disjointed cerebral region

oleremond

No prof. the ibo man can not do without a bigger Nigeria. The benefits of our collectivity is far more than the regionalism u are canvassing for. Prof. Ango is equally wrong, even though he is only crying for attention and settlement. On whose north is he speaking for?. The north is dead and no relevance. What Nigeria needs is a Father leadership with all the characteristics of a Father/Mother .God will not forgive Nigerians if we allow few elites to break Nigeria

Ann

While i agree with you as usual, i must point out that there is no sin in the break up of any nation so there is nothing for God to forgive. The break up of the USSR is the reason why there is peace in that region today. Likewise so many other places.

dr sola

Prof u are very right in all respect we are left to fate as far as this country is concerned. Still worrisome is the continued inneptitude at high places that we still suffer. I wonder when we will be deregionalized.

Edu/Stuttsgat

Prof Angst Abdulahi is the most disillusioned Foolani ever to step foot on Nigerian soil. He is not so comfortable with the position of Dr Aliyu Babangida, hairman Northern Governors Forum, who would rather negotiate with the emergent president, the needs of the north rather than be in belligerence. Nigerians applauded wise Babangida’s position but the rabid monger is not done with operation make the country ungovernable for GEJ.
We are not so surprised because his antecedent atypical of Foolanis quest for political power to enhance their economic leverage on the land. The defeat of home boy Ibrahim Tofa should never be repeated is their mantra. However Nigeria is ever transformed with the restive youths in North East venting their spleens on their elders ala Othman of ANPP in Borno whose house was razed down. Modu Bunu Sheriff escaped by the whiskers
As for the entity called Nigeria, we are bonded for life because the spiritual, political and social elites are in love with one another and are not ready for split as long as the Niger Delta Oil flows to Kaduna

tony

My dear Prof. Peter Nwangwu, I respect Prog. Ango Abdullahi, but go and check his records at ABU. He was a quota Vice-Chancellor imposed by the military on ABU, and he almost destroyed the institution. ABU is still reeling from the ruins till date. I am very sorry to say, but he has never represented anything good. Besdies, anything outside north, is not his concept/constitution. It must be north, and when it is north, it must be the elites. These elites are a selected few, and mostly moslems, and they have so successfully brain washed the almijirins and talakwas to the level of begging before they could eat – feeding from the crumbs that fell from their table. They used the sheiiks, the islamic scholars and the traditional rulers as instruments of oppression. They subject them to laws which they and their children don’t keep. They frustrate every of their endeavours that will bring them to limelight. They deny them sound education for fear of competition with their children, while their children traverse the globe with their dull brains for academic laurels. Their children live in better houses, drive the most expensive cars, and are well taken care off, but check the okada riders, the meruwas, the almajirins, the talakwas where they live. Any uncompleted building, is like a mansion to them. The mosquitos are their friends. Besides, these elites have ruled this country for more than 38 years. But what have they bequeathed the north with: ignorance, diseases, poverty, etc. These elites also fear so much the serious challenges the awareness and exposures arising from the introduction of almijirins and talakwas schools would pose to them and their children. These almijirins and talakwas, when educated, would know their rights, and try to show relevance in the society, a situation which the elites would find insurmountable. And this is one of the serious reasons why GEJ is not so much wanted by them. Let us fear God.

WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY? THIS QUESTION COMES TO ME AND YOU. WHAT WILL YOUR JOYOUS ANSWER BE WHEN YOU APPEAR BEFORE THE MASTER JESUS? WHEN THE AUTOMATIC QUIT NOTICE TO VACATE THE BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT MANSION AND CARS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT FOR THE TINY MORGUE AND THEN CASKET COMES? LOOK AT MOGAJI, OGBENI TINUBU’S MOTHER WITH ALL THE MANSIONS, CARS, MONIES BEING LOWERED INTO THE GRAvE WITH ONLY A WHITE CLOTHE (WHITE OUTSIDE, BUT DIRTY INSIDE). NAKED SHE CAME, NAKED SHE WENT. VANITY UPON VANITY. ALL IS VANITY. BUT WILL SHE, AND YOU HAVE AN ANSWER OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE BEFORE GOD WITH ALL THE INVOLVEMENTS IN SECRET AND OCULTIC SOCITIES?

akara

Only a true confederation that was destroyed by Aguiyi Ironsi can save Nigeria.. Every region should be allowed to develop at their own pace.. If the Northerners want Islamic education let them have it and stop dragging the rest of Nigeria down..

For example, in a consolidated Northern region, they can choose who they want to employ they can make the pass marks for entrance exams to study medicine zero over 400 (0/400), it shouldn’t be a problem, because I don’t think I will have any need to go to hospitals operated in the North.

Now in the south, Ndigbos that keep insinuating that yorubas are betrayers and spreading lies and propaganda about yorubas. Therefore it is not a problem for Ndigbos to quietly relocate to the east and develop their homelands..

Of course Ndigbos who choose to stay in yorubaland or relocate in stages will be given the freedom to do so, as long as they do not sabotage or threaten yoruba interests..

Therefore a regional government of willing states and tribes in Nigeria is the only way forward, as old wounds have been reopened, from Nigerian history. It is very clear who the traitors and betrayers of the Nigerian people are.

China has got over 1 billion citizens same as India, and the population of people living barely above the poverty line in each of these countries is more than the population of the entire Nigeria.

Therefore, If the population of Ndigbos imprisoned for criminal activities in China alone is more than the population of all Asian Nationals including China and India in Nigerian prisons.. Is this the time that Ndigbos should be insulting and spreading false propaganda about yorubas???

The wisemen said, “that he who lives in a Glass house should not throw stones at other people”, I’m sorry Prof, but this is an Ndigbo problem, that I cannot afford to tolerate anymore as a yorubaman and a Nigerian.

Ndigbos investing money and time in yorubaland, are on a very wasteful venture that they will surely regret.. Their are 300 tribes in Nigeria and I have only met Nigerians from barely 70 tribes of this tribes.

Pls enough, yoruba people and yorubas states, need to have more control over the immigration to yoruba land and desist from giving special preference to Ndigbos. I mean yorubas use the branches of the palm tree to make special whisks, for making ewedu soup but Ndigbos spread propaganda that yorubas are dirty and use brooms in making soups.. Lolxxxx..

It used to be very funny when I first heard it from an Ndigbo, and of course that’s one of the tricks to know a JJC Ndigbos in lagos and the south-west in general.. But Nnow it is no longer funny, seriously how can the mind of an Ndigbo man be so devious, just because the Ewedu whisk is made from the same material as traditional brooms? The ewedu whisk is a very short broom that is not even remotely practical to sweep floors???

Prof, if yorubas are such a terrible people, why do Ndigbo travel hundred’s of kilometres to come and live with yorubas? There are shipping ports in port-harcourt and calabar.. And even more can be built in the south-east.. Lagos was Federal capital 30years ago and designed for less than 5million people.

Can any Ndigbo truly and honestly justify what is atracting them to yorubaland because it really does not make any sense??? You blame yorubas for every Ndigbo problem, but you are the ones that stick your noses into yoruba affairs, you are the ones that choose to come to yorubaland, no one forced you.

Every year at least over 100,000 Ndigbos are first-time visitors in yoruba land with intentions to stay permanently. This trend must be ceased Ndigbos should leave yorubaland and yoruba people alone.. Because Ndigbos have exposed themselves to be a people that feed on propaganda, spread propaganda, and ingratitude..

Edu/Stuttsgat

Since when has Lagos become Yoroba property? Binis who groomed Oba Akiolu have not made claims to this no man’s land. Aworis are minority hence the Jagaban brings administrators from Ogun and Osun states for Lagos.
If Ndigbo take out their business empire from Lagos, the mega city will become a ghost town. The only thriving business of the Yorobas is certificate forgery at Oju Nrin and human parts dealing at Igbosere

Humble Zayon

Do you really need to bother yourself about the senseless comments of these quoter system professors produced during Ibrahim Babangida’s erra. Looking at the man himself, he appears to have attained his mental menopause.You may even ask whether he and his group has even once supported the present administration in any way? Since they failed woefully in imposing their northern candidate as a president have they not been using their religious hoodlums in the name of boko haram in creating security challenges to the country in order to frustrate the government of the day? Surely, one day Nigeria will break up, but it cannot be in their own terms.

Raphael Invincible Ikyaabo

Prof. i want you to understand some basic issues. Nigeria is not the hand work of Britain, but God’s making. if it were the late Ojukwu would have succeeded in disintegrating the country. Whatever, we are passing through is man made and to be attributed to Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo. Don’t blame Prof. Ango.

tony are

A tale of two professors. Nwangwu and Ango…..Biafra is dead. I know, in you thesis, Ibo are descendant of Jews. If you’re really a professor, you will ask every Ibo man to fight for Nigeria Unity. I am not a professor but I am intelligent enough to work this out, 1. Igbo are only found in Nigeria and no where else. 2, Igbos trade a lot and benefit in big market provided by Nigeria than most ethnic group in Nigeria. 3,What Igbo want from Nigeria is what all Nigerians want (i.e. security, free trade, end of discrimination, good governance, etc). 4. Most of the oil wells in Nigeria are in Minorities lands. Biafra for Igbo don’t = oil money (if you think a country like France won’t come in and ensure these minorities are independent and control their oil then you must be the most stupid professor in the world). 5, Biafra independence will mean a land locked country, densely populated, with high crime and many violent deadly clashes ( remember, 1/3 of Nigeria armed robbers are Igbo). 6, what are you going to do with Igbo that are inter-married and invested in other places in Nigeria? 7. are you going to take Ajegunle to Biafra land? 8., If professor can take his head out of his rear end you’ll notice what’s going in Maiduguri, the Army is killing Bokos in hundreds, that’s what keeping Nigeria Unity is about. The army won’t let Biafra go easy, how many Igbo you and idiots like you going to allow to die for foolish dream?

Toyo Jimmy

Prof., you are actually right. It is quite disheartening to read such unpatriotic assertions. It is even more disheartening when it comes from a professor ( a person of intellectual ascendency). Statements like these sometimes make me want to abandon my patriotic view of one Nigeria devoid of tribal leanings. I think we still have a lot of work to do in Nigeria. I have always strive as a young man dreaming of new Nigeria to inject into Nigerians a sense of oneness and nationalism wherever I find myself.
.

Ajayi olupona

Here is another major reason why Nigerians should not be dreaming of peace in the coming days and years !The prof could be regarded as logical going by his opinion .Infact , i share the larger part of his calculated thought .But then , the British error could not be said to be limited to only our federation .The same error was made by the same Britain in every part of our continent and beyond !For those still weeping over the error of Britain , for those who thought that the division of the country is the solution , i have a question for you .The question is this , that if the nation of Biafra was given a chance in the late 1960s , don’t you think it would have given birth probably to dozens of new nations from the same old eastern region but without any development or noted change by the people ? In other words , if the creation of the nation of BIafra had been allowed , don’t you think that by now we would be talking about the nation of Nnewi , the nation of onisha , the nation of Enugu , the nation of orlu , the nation of oguta, the nation of Nkalagu but with the same old problems and disputes ? After the civil-war , dozens of new states were created but why do we still have the same old problems ? What has been done with all those shared oil money by our local policians ? Why do we have more beggars in northern Nigeria ? Our major obstacle in that country remains our local politicians ! Mind you , i am from an oil producing state and therefore , ready for anything !

tonywarri

Nigerian did not only vote against zoning, nigerians voted against the stupidity of a few old men who assume that they can speak for a whole population of mixed personal opinions. Go to the north and see how mixed the population is. If not that somebody plans to rig, the population of southerners alone in jos, kaduna and the rest can deliver the north to jonathan.

haz

Quite frankly I dont agree with you my brother on the jos and kaduna issue, but im 100% behind you on how everyone’s opinion and should matter and not that of a few old heads.

http://runningjimi.wordpress.com/ Jimi Oke

Zoning, federal character, indigene-settler discrimination…

Nigeria has never been truly united. It’s been one long, unending civil “war”. Could we possibly agree to form semi-autonomous regions—a loosely bound confederation with a weak center? Maybe we could also slash all federal government salaries. Perhaps the president/prime minister should not earn a kobo more than N50,000 per month. Then we’ll see how many will remain to jostle for “power”.

I hope we get to the point where we can amicably discuss the way forward. The prognosis, however, is quite grim.

Edu/Stuttsgat

Na today?

haz

Lets us all be realistic guys, there is going to be an election in 2015, and its left to the people to vote, and we should all vote for who we deem best for the country be him from the north, west or south. Quite frankly Nigeria’s progress has being marred by sentimental politics and its time we as a people all rise up and decide for ourselves who deem fit, and not who NEF, ACF, MEND, OR oduduwa group tells us to vote. I believe 2015 is the time for change.

http://runningjimi.wordpress.com/ Jimi Oke

Great comment. If GEJ’s administration doesn’t, I hope the next administration will seriously address the brokenness of our system.

haz

Fact my brother.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The brokeneness Yoroba OBJ failed to address for 8 solid years?

http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/ Udoabasi

So the sentimental politics is going to stop if I vote in Ango Abdullahi’s direction. If I vote in another direction it is sentiments

Femi Pedro

He didn’t sat that

Edu/Stuttsgat

The accomplished Ako Bata Foolani on the rampage

Femi Pedro

Name calling is a symptom of an offspring of a psychotic dysfunctional family.

Ann

Keep dreaming

frank

Rubbish. when the come comes, the happen will happen

Femi Pedro

May you never see darkness in your life.

Rose

THE ONLY THING NIGERIA GAINED FROM 39 YEARS OF NORTHERN MISRULE IS BOKO HARAM. THEY ARE THE LEAST EDUCATIONAL UNDERDEVELOPED IN NIGERIA AFTER WASTING 39 YEARS. O NORTH WHEN WOULD YOU STOP FEUDALISM AND GIVE WHAT BELONGED TO YOUR PEOPLE TO THEM AND RETURN THE LOOT OF IBB AND CO TO YOUR PEOPLE.YOU ARE ALWAYS POWER HUNGRY.

ricky saint

Prof. Ango Abdullahi or what ever your names is, the south is not indebted to any region tribe or people especially the north so please sir stop using that word

ayobami

d parasitic yorubas might be indebted to d north(arisekola,lateef adegbite,d ape of ota etc),d SS and SE are certainly not indebted to anybody or tribe bcos the highest natural and human resources comes from dis regions.

Klassic

Yet SE remains impoverished and under-developed

Original Ijaw boy

We in the ss are not more endowed than any other region, the entirety of Nigeria land are reachly blessed with different kind of natural resources, but laziness is our bane in this country and beside that other tribe will never agree to the present arrangement and will prefer the state/region doing the mining. This was the reason why OBJ or any before him could not explore the bitument deposit (2nd largest in the world and more reachly than crude oil) in Ondo state despite all his effort the people resisted and mind you we spend billions of dollars to import bitumen every year, and bitumen will still give you everything crude oil will give you.

TheEAGLE_EYE

Dear Ango, you’re just a professor tribalism and said the north would throw its wait behind anyone with northern interest at heart, where is the wait to throw? North now simply is EMPTY VESSEL THAT MAKES THE MOST SOUNDS.

obene1

Selfish, parasitic and unproductive Northern elders forum !

malcolm b

it’s rather unfortunate most of our comments are base on sentiments,religion and tribe in particular.when will Nigerians ever grow up.that’s why Obama will never come to Nigeria.God is watching.

Garden-City Boy

Overgrown almajiris call themselves elders. Who are they thinking for, their numerous (83) wives or the barbaric almajiris?

Yusuf

At least Almajiris are better than products of baby factories, and it is better to be a housewife than italy prostitute that your sisters are

Sarki Gajo

Nice one Mallam Yusif, i really dont want react over all the sentimental and stupid comment here, But let me remind all of you that react to Mallam Ango Abdullahi in a nutshell, Ango is has hit the nail on point, that NO Northerner can vote for Stupid Jonathan come 2015 and we stand by it and is our collective resolution, we will bring a credible candidate that can defeat Jonathan even if he get the PDP Ticket, he should forget the Presidency. and Ango has said it clear, in fact Jonathan can not dare to come to North for campaign and for any other reason, and for Prof Nwangu as you called your stupid self, Ango Abdullahi is more educated, respected and learnerd then all the south south, None of your Profs can compete with him intellectually that is if you have one, and an Igbo man can never rule the country. You should also know that its only the northerners that can decide to split the country, we have the majority in the both houses, we have Nigerian force, for your information both Military, Police and Para-Military are 80% Northerners. if the time comes we will send you out of the Northern region entirely. Do you pple have anything there at all? all your wealth and property is in the North. both in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Maiduguri, and other part of the Northern region. we hate you and we dont like you, i am reffering to those that blindly write rubbish against the mighty North.

silvaokey

Ranting of A Fool. a product of quota system.you will eat your word when Jonathan finally win.remember 2011 election did the north support him? who imarge as the winner after the election?.finally bear in mind that north did not have a candidate that can win 50% of vote in any election in nigerian.

concern

Damn right ! no evil child of biafra will ever rule Nigeria. We know what they are capable, we know what d drunk with half evil gene has done already and we know what they will do. Everywhere u put an evil child of biafra, they ethnically cleanse the ministry u put them and blatantly replace them with their kin folks. Aviation ministry and all parastatals attached to that ministry for example has been ethnically cleansed and virtuall all top managers, directors, mds are all evil biafrans. Late Sadauna of Sokoto said so, Late Premier of d Western Region Chief Akintola said d same thing and anyone interested to hear what they said should browse Youtube. Let sth sth and sth east vote d drunk halfbred biafran; their votes together not up to votes in Lagos or kano. So its impossible for d drunk to win without Sth West and North. Its so easy, back to d same old alliance bt sth west and d north in the first republic

Edu/Stuttsgat

Th Foolanis and the Ako Bata Foolanis are the proponents and sustainers of Regionalism

Equity

i pity u. i suspect, you are BH. Because your comments are divisive, sectarian, antagonistic, and unlearned. Whatever, u call yourself, pls learn to make comments that are reasonable and contributive.

Edu/Stuttsgat

What did the entire north no do in 2011? Senile Adamu Ciroma, Junaid Mohammed, Mallam Shehu Sanu all ganged up against GEJ and propped up Atiku Abubakar who could not stand the test of time as he collapsed like a pack of domino.
At the election proper, power hungry but serial loser lost woefully he is still licking his wounds
Foolanis will still fail in 2015. Mighty North indeed

LONDON Boy

@yusuf,if your people are not fools,you said you don’t want Western education,but you want fake human Right,you people said you don’t want western education but you are using gun to kill,why can’t you people used your Local Allow,that is why world see you northern as fools,and you will remain in senseless till end of world,..please tell you so call elders to come together let talk how to divide this so call force marriage we are ever ready for that,Useless fools,..I hate your people understanding

samsam

See who is talking.The north has ruled this country for almost 40yrs out of 53yrs since independence.The collateral damage DUE TO POOR LEADERSHIP BY D NORTH has given vent to Italian prostitution by our wards nd offcourse the scourge of Boko Harram menace.U will eat ur flesh nd drink ur blood nd it will come to u as sweet wine.Ango Abdulahhi,Buharri,nd their ilk ar fast decimating the future of the north thro their unabashed sympathy 4 Boko Harram nd Ansawru as innocent children nd students ar murdered in their sleep.The north wants power back without rendering account of what they did with 40yrs of poor leadership.Yussuf hav heard the song”ABOKI SHINE MY SHOE”Dat is d lot of u Hausa/Fulanis 4 ur intransigence.

ayobami

wat do u expect from cattle rearers who manage to score 2 marks in common entrance exams and 105 in jamb.i av seen where jubril aminu employed a shoe maker as supervisor in NNPC.they av bastardized every aspect of dis country yet they and their sw collaborators want d gr8 gej 2 clear d mess in 2yrs.

Ann

One man from Bauchi was brought to my office to fill the post of Director and balance the federal character equation. Believe me, he was a retired police corporal and when he saw the department’s vote, he began sharing and subordinates were amazed. He simply told them that “Allah ya kawo”.

Femi Pedro

Lies and deceit has its reward

Edu/Stuttsgat

Prosecutor General, hypocritical Yoroba

Femi Pedro

Maybe they didn’t teach you that whilst growing up. But then no surprises there

Ann

What about mecca prostitutes? The reason why they were unceremoniously deported last year from Saudi? Believe me that story you guys are peddling to make it appear they are not muslims won’t wash. I know at least 2 of them. Yes ooo, wear hijab de fly about.

Edu/Stuttsgat

They do not prostitute in Mecca madam, they only circle and bow before a polished black meteorite in the name of worship which is idolatry

Edu/Stuttsgat

You have a point there Mallam Foolani. Baby housewives with scourge of VVF are far better.
It is also safer to sustain the Almajiri system in as much as the underpant bomber Abdul Muttalabs can school in UK

Realist

its better to be called Almajiri than Italian prostitute,kidnapper,armed robber,yahoo yahoo,419ner and a hosts of other vices associated with SS And SE.

emeka

Prof. Ango Abdullahi pls, who is oweing who a moral debt? what is equity & justice? Take a look at the list below to assist you in answering the question.

then declare the terror republic of niger delta and evil republic of biafra !!! Leave Yorubaland and go back to d swamps. U have nothing in d swamps that we lack in Yoruba nation; absolutely nothing but I can assure u that when d evil ones starts to annex the swamps again and enslave u like before; no Yoruba, Hausa and Fulani will shed their blood to free u from slavery again. Ungrateful child of d swamps. Go now! Go !! U have nothing we lack in Yorubaland. The behaviour of the drunk, the halfbred biafran president of terror republic of niger delta and Evil republic of biafra is exactly d reason we cant trust anyone with a pin drop of blood of evil biafra. Greeeeeeeeed ! sworn in as president after d demise of President Yaradua, sworn in again d second time in 2011 and seeking to be sworn in again d third time against the constitution and against d gentle man agreement of pdp. Thats how treacherous anyone with a pin drop of evil blood in them are. All of them are like that, there’s no exception

Edu/Stuttsgat

Why are the Yorobas sore afraid to declare Oodua Republic?

babatunde ereola rpa

It is very strange for anyone with the right senses to be discussing 2015 elections with the myriads of problems facing the country at the moment .The work performance of the president will decide for him and this why I had urged him severally to rejig his team to enable the dividends of democracy to be delivered to the people. The president should do self examination and do what would make the electorate decide in his favour.Here,i rest my case.

Alex Adegbulugbe

It’s high time we change our political orientation and embrace true democracy where any qualified citizen of the country can contest any elective position regardless of the geo political zone he belongs . What Nigeria needs now is a detribalized national leader who is more concerned with how to eradicate poverty and tackle other fundamental problems that have kept the nation stationary for years . Such a leader can come from any part of the country as long as he will bring genuine transformation. As for the incumbent president I strongly advise him to go back to Otuoke after the end of his tenure because his administration has failed to meet the aspirations of Nigerians.

Truthbtold

Dude, speak for yourself. Many honest God fearing Nigerians, foreign investors & Nigerians in diaspora can see the underlying transformation in the country albeit shrouded with political & religious propaganda. We have never had it so good with transparency on how funds are being spent on developmental projects. Any other alternative within the current crop of arrogant, devious, selfish, perpetually corrupt politicians will spell doom for Nigeria. We have to evolve from the politics of godfathers, nepotism, religion & tribe with a focus on using true technocrats & professionals to take Nigeria to the next level. We can no longer be deceived by animals in human skin.

Klassic

We have never had it so BAD with transparency on how funds are being spent on developmental projects

ayobami

ayobami

yoruba man.otukpo-enugu
road,kano-maiduguri road,gombe-numa road,abuja airport road,benin-ore road,ibadan-ilorin road,port harcour-owerri road etc av been
constructed.ongoing projects are oshodi-apapa road,abuja-abaji-lokoja
road,okenne-auchi road,shagamu-ore road etc.d banking sector is
stable,48hrs Clarence of goods as against months in d past,d railways
are now functional,FDI now d highest in africa,power sector reforms etc are some of d land marked achievement of d great gej.i want all foolish yoruba men on dis forum 2 name wat d ape of ota achieved in 2yrs of his administration

Fellow

I beg to disagree wt all your laid down project that u talk abt. Did our noble GEJ administration started any of so called project frm the scratch, i.e Ibadan-Ilorin road Shagamu-Ore road e.t.c, kindly furnish us wt fresh projects. Banking sector was GEJ appoint SLSanusi as the CBN Gov. pls give us reason we should cast our vote for come 2015. INSHA ALLAH. be blessed.

ayobami

for ur info it is d man who completes a job dat is credited dat is why d 3rd mainland bridge is ibb bridge even though it was gowon who started it,also just as like in football it is d man who scores d goal dat is recognized not d man who worked it. yoruba fool,ur complain shows d strength of xter of d gr8 GEJ,which one wud u prefer,d man who abandons worthwhile projects of his predecessor bcos of enviousness/ethnicity like buhari and yar’adua(LKJ’S badagry light train/ OBJ’S power plants) or the man who completes d project.

ayobami

for ur info it is d man who
completes a job dat is credited dat is why d 3rd mainland bridge is called ibb
bridge even though it was gowon who started it,also just as like in
football it is d man who scores d goal dat is recognized not d man who
worked it. yoruba man,ur complain shows d strength of xter of d gr8
GEJ,which one wud u prefer,d man who abandons worthwhile projects of his
predecessor bcos of enviousness/ethnicity like buhari and
yar’adua(LKJ’S badagry light train/ OBJ’S power plants) or the man who
completes d project.

http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/ Udoabasi

Read your statement Sani “As democrats, ACF and northern leaders accepted the judgment of Nigerians in accordance with democratic tenets which demand that majority has its say and way while minority only has its say”. Your democratic values and acceptance of the people’s decision has been the killing of corpers, southerners and middle-belters when the results were announced. It is manifested in the Boko Haram and the North remaining ungovernable for GEJ

Mohammed Otaki Agbo

So what if nigeria break up?i am disappointed by ur assertion prof Peter Nwangwa..but I am not surprise cos of ur background…Igbo..here today there 2morrow because of worldly things.

Ali mutaba

That is the word of a dieing frustrated old man and by the way how many vote is this illiterate Prof going to cast and who is he representing, where are his children and grand children, are they among the alimajeris roaming the street looking for remnant of food?

Joseph gardner

Mohammed I am so disappointed with this your second comment how dear you call a professor that is the highest VC in our Nigerian university a fool or illiterate.i think you are not sincere pls think twice pls and withhold your comment pls.

was he give d vc on merit,obviously all hausa-fulani in various positions got there on d basis federal xter of quota system,given a free and fair selection process with merit as d bench marked,no hausa-fulani man will ever be in any sensitive position

Klassic

You sound like a secondary school drop-out from the creeks. Your opening sentence exposed your level of education.

ayobami

no sane man will listen to dis quota system half baked prof who got admitted into unity school with 2/300 and jamb score of 105/400.

Samantha

Mr. OLu James Omosule said: – Join the movement for Change today at www omosuleforpresident com and tell all your friends to do the same. This campaign is our moment, our chance to stand up for the principles and values that we cherish; to bring new ideas, energy, and leadership to a uniquely challenging time. It’s our chance to say ‘we can’ and ‘we will.

jzun

fantasy!

Mani_Kay

That the Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani will not support Jonathan in 2015 is not an issue. After all, they really did not support him in 2011. The important thing “Prof” Ango Abdullahi should have told us is that Governor Rotimi Amaechi will support the Northern Muslim Hausa-Fulani in 2015.

Joseph Gardner

Is not a matter of muslems or Christian, is pure politics nothing con CERN religion in this issue, you are the type of bad eggs in the society that are using religion to mislead public with illiterate view and I am sure you don’t even go to church bcs if you attend sermon in church I am sure the pastors will always advice his followers not to mixed politics and religion and if you decided to preach hatrate base on religion then safe journey pls .you are the looser.bcs we are wise now we know our left and right.

Mani_Kay

@Joseph Gardner: why are you talking like a man without brain. Are you not aware that Islam is the only religion in the world that insists that religion and politics cannot be separated?

Sunny Oke.

I don’t blame anyone who withdraws their support for GEJ personally i don’t see anything forthcoming from him & his brigade of worthless motivational speakers.Take out ethnicity, religion, & sentiments, nobody in their right senses should be voting for a man that should never have risen beyond an HOD in some rotten institution like we have all over the country.

Umah G

You have not said anything. Just the bus stop criticism that had been elevated to an art by people who are so naive to look at the past and come out with objective comparisons.

lifeline

With a professorship obtained by quota system, he is actually qualified to talk like a dimwit or ding bang. This is one of the exports from the north but i have had some serious discussions or sessions with some intelligent elites from the north . This Ango character is at best an idiot.

kiki nabil

Who even need your support? with or without your support if God almighty wills,GEJ must rule comes 2015.After all did the northern people vote GEj during the last election?You people voted for Buhari yet, your number could not get to half of those that voted GEJ so, what are you talking about? A beg forget it.

amah sossy

And you dished out the west that supported you. Where is you support coming from this time around? South-south/south -east only account for 26% of the voting block while the west gives 30% and you forgot them. We have to do real politicking if we are to win next general election not grandstanding or pouring abuses on the west. They are our best bet this time around. Even if we cannot get across to the political leaders, let us soften our positions and appeal to the masses. Stop abusing them with your comments. They are marginalized in this government. It has never been this bad in the political history of this country that the second biggest ethnic group will not produce any of the first 20 senior position. Be it opposition states or region, it has never done like this. South-south youths should learn how to use political language. knowing that in the game of politics there is never a permanent friend or enemy but only permanent interest. The south-east failed to recognized that and they are never at home with the west and instead dreamed most at times about artificial partnership with the far north that will never work. truth must be told. Let us dialogue.

enejo

You lied. North does not have Middle Belt.

amah sossy

Maybe middle belt is south-south. You would have called them for last Sunday”s south-south/south-east regional meeting.

Original Ijaw boy

@Amah sossy in your comment you sound like somebody from SS, if that is true then there still could be a little hope for your/our kinsman GEJ, on getting to the top he cut off the ladder that took him to the top forgetting that if not for the Yorubas he would not have smell the office. When the game was tough (when Yaradua was commatose) we the SS could not muster enough courage to confront the north, but the yoruba took the battle headlong. Even in the 2011 election remove a third of yoruba vote for GEJ and add it to Buhari vote and tell me what you get..

Kaze A

Your false identity and naivety are your greatest undoing. Winning Nigeria’s presidency is not only about having the largest number of votes; it is about winning at least 25% of the votes in at least 2/3 of the states. Apart from Osun state, which other state did Buhari win in the south that would have guaranteed him victory. if you are waiting for Buhari, then you will wait for a lifetime for nothing.

sondoinah12

Zoning of the presidency in Nigeria is dead and buried. Why do we keep on wasting precious time discussing it? I believe the majority would have its way and say in 2015. Who say any other party like NCP or LP cannot win the presidency in 2015 if they are properly organised. We seem to underrate the power of labour and/or the civil society.

Sunbare

Under normal circumstance, no Northerner will have any post in Nigeria, somebody from Sokoto will score 120 in JAMB and will still find a place to study Medicine/Engineering, why someone above 200 will not get admission because of quota system. Same thing playout in employment circle. What do we expect then?????

Ijaodola

What is this stakeholder(s) or stake holding? What stake? Which holding? People often talk and behave as if the so-called groups – north, east, west or south-south are real existing political entities. But in reality, they are not. It is a mere strategy of greedy politicians and political elites for their personal gains. Can any politician in Nigeria honestly claim to represent anyone than his own pocket? It is high time we stop this primitive decisive politics of ethnicity and sectarianism. If after a century – “an odd one hundred years” – we can not build a nation – where every Nigerian is equal and free to contest with pandering to sectional warlords and discredited intellectuals, then we should dissolve voluntary, before doing more damages to our collective existences.

Tolani

These so called elders are the most unfortunate aspect of the history of this country. They are nothing but agents of disunity and anarchy. The northern elders are only comfortable if and only if a northern is in power why? So as to have unfiltered access to the common wealth of the nation. Even the north has been made so backward that even if they have power for another 30 years they will not develop the place. The north has the greatest army of uneducated youths in the country. Why ? It serves the elders interest,whose aim is to keep them permanent poverty. Let these northern elders hear this, no northerner will be president until an Ibo man rule for eight years. Why, so that all these agents of anarchy would have left the stage. Ango Abudulai is not an educated man but was made educated by quota. He has no merit behind his professorship. He is a product that lacks merit. Can he talk among educated people of this world ? NO. He is only comfortable among nonentities .

Freedom

Humans talking about 2015, they don’t even know if they will see tomorrow.

John

Let each state run their own government and manage their resources, that is the solution.

adeara11

The North have ruled Nigeria for most part of her independent years,their motto is to rule at all cost.The most uneducated part of the country with virtually no functioning natural resources and the sponsors of terrorism still have the effrontery to demand and say that the South owe them a moral obligation.
The Northern elders and there ilk can put a suck on it,bunch of well blended wankers.

Ayour Pee

How did the North got to rule us for so long? Was it through elections? How many of we, the coward southerners, can overthrow a military government??? Even OBJ was forced to become Head of State after the death of Murtala. Reasonable people know that GEJ is using the northern slot and the grouse he is having with OBJ is simply because GEJ had agreed to go for only a term and allow others to rule. However, if he is ruling well, we would have forgotten about such promises … but he isn’t!!!!

Tp

Things are always done without following the global laid down procedures in Nigeria. What are the positions of our votes when one tribe/religion group claims to be the next President waiting ? In every ramification, periodic elections are to be conducted to elected leaders into politocal offices.
Ours should not be different at all. We must follow the procedures. The issue of claiming who is next tend to hike the tension in the land as 2015 is still far to discuss now.
The present administration should be alllowed to concentrate on his constitutional duties he owes the electorates.

hammerhouseofhorror

We’ll not support Jonathan in 2015 –Northern elders
B’adamua, Nsogbadi, Kosi Wahala, No problem………
Nna, We go meet for the field (election) na

james

This proff is really dumb. With leaders like this in Nigeria, we cannot survive. If educated National leaders are talking about north, south, east..how can Nigeria remain one. If our leaders and politicians cant select the best between themselves to drive these country forward, but rather use North , south, yoruba, Ibo..its really a shame to all our leaders..Shame on you all…

Efficacy

Wow, so North understand the meaning of EQUITY AND JUSTICE now, but was there EQUITY AND JUSTICE for 38 yrs that they ruled this country? Thank God, most Nigerians are wise now,very wise. We know what we want and we also know how to go about it.

Momoh Ejeh

There is no need for Regional campaign but united and peaceful Nigeria…Politicians are our problems because of their uncontrollable utterances creating unnecessary tensions among Nigerians….Let me reminded us that the issues of zoning is gone forever and the Presidency can come from any where or part of Nigeria.Politicians

SEEKERS ONLY

AMAZING REVEALATION ! OF HOW YOU CAN START EXPORT OF KOLA NUTS, BITTER KOLA AND GINGER IN SMALL SCALE. YOU START ( AS TRAIL ORDER OF 50KG–500KG )

You do not need much to start as trial order , infact you can do as much trial order and make constant income weekly.

HINTS :

***The current international price of bitter kola is $19 per kg.

***************************************

Henry is a Small scale

Exporter & importer, Business and SMEs Expert

***************************************

kindly call Mr. Henry on :

0805-8499-904 ,

0803-9454-675

B I

When Nigeria becomes a FEDERATION….not just in words, then the jostle for the presidency, and all its attendant tribal and regional sentiments, would be reduced to its nadir!!! When the government at the center owns all the resources of a vast and diverse peoples, by means of a dubious constitution, there can be no light at the end of the tunnel. How long can we go on, before we finally burst the bubble???

Man_Enough

The man has spoken with clean logic and those opposing should propound their sane argument not sentiment, disrespect and intolerance. He spoke about interest which rules everybody’s decision in politics. If you want his vote, actualise his interest. Pure and simple. If you cannot come to terms with his interest, convince him with superior argument not insults. He is eminently entitled to harbour an interest personal and passionate to him.

Edu/Stuttsgat

To the detriment of even your brawny self brainless?

Dibang Ibru

We know the stand of Northern Elders Forum since advert of Boko Haram insurgence. The problem South-South and Southeast has is the deceit and double standard of the West or Yorubas.

Elite1

Now it should be obvious to all and sundry that going to school only makes you literate which is the ability to read and write but language was not stipulated in that definition,but enlightenment transcends literacy cos it teaches you how to use the words you can read and write sensibly.You would have expected a professor to be enlightened,but alas the reverse is the case here.A man at this age should clamor for Nigerians to vote for a credible candidate come 2015 irrespective of tribe or origin and not insisting the candidate must be from the north.
I wish he could be stripped of his professorship cos he has desecrated that high calling with obnoxious comment,and sentiments have beclouded logic which makes him appear as someone who is ignorant in the matter in which he pontificates.
Peter nwagu and emeka you guys did a cerebral analysis on this matter even though i do not call for break up of the country,but good job anyway.

Man_Enough

in a plural society like ours, it is sound logic and reasoning to be sensitive to the yearnings of different groups.doing so will stabilize polity.

emperor

It is true some people see sense in nonsense because of their mental capacity.Not surprised by the people who support the abdulahi of our time on this forum.

Michael Ijere

OK, it’s not compulsory you support him, but he will still be President till 2019, because he is doing better than all the past Presidents , North and all

LONDON Boy

We don’t care about North,but we only care about dividing so call Nigeria,so we can go our ways,this force marriage need to be end,I know north only want one Nigeria for oil money,that is why their fools

concern

declare d evil republic of biafra now ! evil children of biafra forcing themselves on us. If u pack your stuff and leave lagos and all other Yoruba capitals that u live, who is going to stop u ? when u go to your village to visit or on Xmas period, who stops u; so why cant u jus go now and when u and all your evil kinfolks leave our land, then we know u have biafra without shedding a drop of blood. Its not by force, no one is stopping u from leaving Oyo, Ogun, Oshun, Lagos, Ondo and Ekiti. So its easy to have biafra if truly you seek d evil republic and no one wants u anywhere on their land anyway. Fualnis dont want, Yorubas dont, Hausas cant stand u in their land and a true sth sthners will rather die than been called a biafran bcos its a symbol of evil. So what benefit is it then of tolerating u in our land all these yrs ? u bring nothing but sorrow infesting our land with evil ways of life. Hard drugs & fake pharmaceuticals (these two acts of pure evil have killed more ppl on d planet than any act of genocide ever recorded in the history of mankind); u breed human babies to sell rituals, cliford orji represents d perfect image of what evil biafrans are and I wonder what other form of evil can u come up with, it was in d evil land d other day that river ezu in anambra was flowing with bodies of 60 young men all of a sudden, any form of evil not yet thought of is what evil biafrans are capable,What about armed robberies, kidnapping and d rest of it. So when u go imminently, our land will be free of pure evil and image of d country nigeria will redeemed automatically almost 100 % over night bcos fraudsters and evil drug pushers caught abroad are over 90% evil biafrans. So what benefit is it to nigeria having evil biafrans as tolerated citizens. No other tribe in nigeria lives in d evil landlocked region of biafra i.e abia, anambra, imo, enugu and ebonyi. what benefit are u ? absolutely zero.

mike

Sarki, your myopic write-up is quite appalling.

TOBBY777

If Nigeria were to be a Country of records most of those running their mouths on national issues would have been in jail for the many sins they have committed against the Nigerian state, but since we are a nation were the most educated are tribalist, a nation highly divided along tribal, religious and regional lines, and giving the false census population which credited more than 60 percent of our population to the north, anglo and his group can continue to issue threats.

I am not a fan of joanthan, i am not a fan of the presidency of turn by turn. I have and will always support the best irrespective of were he comes from, the GOD he serves and the language he speaks. Having said that, should the north continue in this their arrogance of trying to force their will on us, should they continue to treat other components of Nigeria with disdain, the 2011 miracle will happen again come 2015. I am not in any way against the north vying for the presidency of this great nation, but they must do that based on competence. They should tell Nigerians why they think their candidate will do better than Jonathan. They should tell us the many areas Jonathan is not meeting up and convince us that their candidate will meet up.

Let us be honest with ourselves for a moment. Who is actually indebted to how in the present day Nigeria? The North have ruined this Country for 38 years and what they got from other part of Country was total support. Why cant the north support other regions for at least 10 years in this country? They reminded us that the Yoruba used june 12 to blackmail the north into giving them. Can somebody see the arrogance there? The north forgot to tell Nigerians how they annulled the best elections ever held in this Country, how they set the wills of the people back. The north will want distance themselves from the atrocities but they are benefiting from the many advantages created by the same military. TODAY IS YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW.

Man_Enough

nobody forced the politicians to sign the agreement on zoning. having signed, however, it behoves on each party to abide by the agreement. all conflict arise from people failing to abide by agreement; legal or not, written or not, by traditional or customary norms or recognized statutes, etc. the issue of weather the north has ruled for so many years is not tenable. if the agreement is flawed, it should be tabled for renegotiation.

Edu/Stuttsgat

No more Arewa Peoples Congress and GOC Bokohamri? My friend has seen the light

ejeh sunday

What does the Prof. understand by equity and justice? Has the northern leaders been just and fair to their followers? I think the prof. should be ashamed of himself. He is not speaking for the north, rather for his selfish families. why should an intellectual like him be narrow-minded? this is why Nigerian educational system is very poor. What does a narrow-minded prof. like him has to offer his students? How does he became a professor? probably a political professor. God save Nigeria from the hand these fools called politicians

Bello B

Good day to all, pls and pls is only Allah (God), know who will be Nigeria president in 2015, but learn a lesson from past, because Allah know batter than any other person, God can do his will at any time, Allah takes late president Umar Yar, adau life, he can take Goodluck Jonathan life at any time he wish, so sambo take over that is life.. so pls let the will of God..? thank you

ayobamiba

Bello your allah can also kill sambo,buhari,ango,and corrupt northern leaders with their southern allies in mischief so that Gej will complete his God given mandate. abi your own Allah Na bokko haram type.

ogu emeka Alex

God has spoken concerning 2015; GEJ STILL NIGERIAN PRESIDENT any one or body working against this plan must surely be disappointed final. No apologies

jzun

let GEJ perform; before talking about 2015.

Fidel98

This north never stop to amaze me .They thought that this country Nigeria belongs to them and their desition must be final but they must be decieving themselves.The most unfortunate thing is that it is the same people amongs them that destroyed this country that always play leadership politics on the front page of newspaper everyday.They claim Nigeria to be one but their mind set and uttrances are self centred.

let your analysis be during democratic governance. during the military, the race was for the fittest not tribe or creed. late Gaddafi ruled for 40 years because he was military not by election. military era was our dark ages; a period of illegality.

Ann

But why do you say not tribe or creed? Gaddafi ruled alone for 40 years but in Nigeria, several regimes came and went, all Hausa/Fulani and you are telling me it was a mere coincidence that no other of the 250 ethnic groups was president then? Hmmm, i wonder how some people reason.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The Ako Bata Foolanis is all brawn and no brain

mike

Mr. Ango, is an ill-baked prof. Most of the core Northerners don’t know that their strength and weight have being desterbilised long time ago. I regard their statements as that from an empty vessel because they are noise makers. truthfully, before 2015 my brethren from SW will definitely see a reason to vote GEJ. They don’t hate GEJ as most people presumed, rat

Femi Pedro

One of the tenets of democracy is freedom of speech and inbuilt in that is the doctrine of tolerance which my faith- the Christian faith believe as one of the teachings of Christ (apologies for slightly raising the issue of faith) Prof Ango has expressed himself, he has purported to speak on behalf of a group, the question then is should we loose sleep over it? My answer is No. Shall we insult him, abuse his tribes, curse ourselves and tribes because of it? Absolutely not. Prof Ango is and should be free to express himself without fear, it is up to the rest of us to agree or disagree with him. His words have no power of compulsion and neither is his speech or lack of will lead to any materialistic practicality.

In fact knowledgeable intel will tell you that your adversary is more likely to expose their thinking/plan when they speak.

Finally, every guiding principle has its rules and democracy is no different. It seems we all want democracy with our own personal intolerable set of rules. No can do sirs and mas

Man_Enough

thank you for being sane. if the north is abdullahi’s interest, so be it. any person who votes without an interest is a nonentity. anybody who thinks that the whole nation ought to have the same interest is mundane.

Edu/Stuttsgat

All brawn and no brain this Ako Bata Foolanis

Man_Enough

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpit.

Samuel Abiodun Ogunlade

Mr President, to be sincere to you, you can still win the the next election, and i will strongly advice you, move closer to and do well with south west, they might support you. if you can get the votes from SS, SE SW and middle belts . You will win the next election. The North are just bluffing. believe me. Though i don’t used to support you, i now realised that you are chosen man from GOD to rule. i sincerely believed you will win the election. no matter what they do or say . However, be good to everyone, leave Gov.amache alone and don’t persecute any opponents . if you can do just that. you will signing the victorious songs in 2015. GOD bless everyone.

Edu/Stuttsgat

Might is understatement. The Yorobas have no option than vote GE a second time.
Who killed innocent Ten Yoroba traders in Bornu? Bokoharmri

Nwoye Igweagu

“Federal character” and “catchment area” syndrome are the problem the North has but they think that it is an advantage to them . From his primary school to becoming a professor and university vice chancellor , Ango Abdullahi never qualified for anything but got them because he is from the North. Even the degrees and certificates hold by 70% of Northers from foreign institutions are paid for ( bought ) by their various Norther state government simply to have somebody to present to occupy high posts in Nigeria not minding whether the person can spell the title he is posted to hold. Ango Abdullahiis a professor before Northers , but in the southern part of Nigeria academic standards Ango Abdullahi is not qualified to be a secondry school teacher. So we must know who is talking before we will spend our time to think on what he says . Leave people like Ango Abdullahi to keep deceiving and destroying the North , they are seeing the result now ( BOKO HARAM meaning Western Education is Bad ) . This is when other regions are struggling to educate their young ones.

The truth has being said time and again, every region within the entity called Nigeria, furthers their interest against a general common good. This is not novel issue, but became too obvious when GEJ emerge as president. The says his not good enough, same as the west. Nepotism and premodial sentiment are fiercely awoken and freely launched against a minority factor,to robe him of his score. Mention the president in Nigerain history, that took us well off, and I’ll tell you his sin.

jzun

which wets are u talking about?

is it the SW that was instrumental to his becoming acting president; president and went ahead to vote for GEJ at the 2011 elections?

abeg note your facts before you start misyarning.

lester

prof. nwangwu.we need not beg or tell them whom they are. our problm is mr president he should go bk to history and take critical analysis and be mindful of mistake of our people. all northerner are beast by their thinking.

Mezie Ibeh

Who cares?

The Tribesman

Professor Ango Abdullahi should go and ROT in Hell!….It is people like him that make me continue to urge Mr President on to run for re-election in 2015!
They will not believe what will happen to them! Terrorists!!!

Ken

The more these Northern leaders claim the presidency, the more whip up support for GEJ among his biggest critics in the South and Middle Belt. In order words, all these rhetoric are working in GEJ’s favour.

AREAFATHER

Thats if you live to see the election Ango Abdullahi ,you this old foolish pig!!!!

Idongesit

Prof. Ango Abdullahi, i guess you were really both a poor pupils and student of arithmetic and mathematics. Cos’ d calculation is from Independence to date i.e [53yrs – (38yrs.2mnths)] find d answer yourselves (Northerners). Quote me on the bases of equity, fairness and moral justice d north is more indebted to d south. Secondly, the Nigeria state is no more a tripod but a country of six geopolitical zone. I bet u guys after Jonathan in 2019 d next zone is SouthEast zone and nothing would happen. Beside, Economically and Socially what has the north got to offer, even presently what do they bring to d table? Except illiteracy and serial murdering of innocent pple and children in d name of Boko Haram.

Saloskani

I think Shehu Sani is beginning to talk more maturely and Prof Abdullahi should take a cue from him and know that in politics, you can’t have your way on your own except you try to build bridges across the divide. The entire northern leaders should call Prof Ango Abdullahi to order because the way he is going, he will only cause more harm than good to the north.

Idongesit

People! listen d North have been dancing on a wet grave 4 so long in this country call Nigeria. Imagine pple going as far as killing innocent pple and kids unprovoked!!! I can bet them that some day, some time in this very country d north will pay 4 their evil against humanity!

Shola(Mandela)

Sen Bola Ahmed Tinubu…..Thank God for those who see you and make bad comment. what of those who do not see you at all…….The amiable leader of our time

GADAHDIBYZ

Ango Abdulahi. Who do you and how many people do you have control over them in the north? YOU failed in ABU, failed in election in Kaduna,used against S/Kaduna people.Listen to what real Academic Prof.Peter saying and rethink over your views thou you Hausa Fulani are very good in leading people blindly and that is why you have succeeded in destroying the North. Please don Allah don Anabi think constructively.

vote right next election

@Saloskani just like the south south people are reducing the national acceptability of GEJ through their blind speculation , he must be president come 2015 or none else. So kindly call your south south people to order before more damage is done to GEJ ambition. As for me my vote goes for the best candidate then

Umoh G

I differ on your statement on SS people. Those who started the issue of ‘the presidency must be for us or we make the country ungovernable’ are still on the terrain. If an SS person responds the same way, then it becomes a crime. If when the ‘owners’ of the presidency are still talking and you are making this sort of comment, what will happen in a couple of years time; you might have distorted the whole history of Nigeria. If even in the midst of these provocative statements being churned out from the north everyday, you are not so ‘blind’ and can see, but cannot make an informed post, then just read others’ posts and pass.

virgoman

”Equity and justice” what a nice phrase for a motto!!!

vote right next election

@Umoh G the Nigeria of ur desire is 1 built on tribal sentiment , while mine is a broad based Nigeria where the best candidate is given the opportunity to lead the nation. mine is an advice and u are free to disagree is okey by me . I am from Abia and will never vote for an incompetent Abia for president while better candidates are there. I am free to use my vote the best way i know and also to influence any around me with good reasons why he should do likewise. If i pray that God should give us a better Nigeria I also should be the first to beleive God and do the right thing.

Sam B

Most contributors on this medium are ethically worst than the people they criticized , the essence of this dialogue is to bring the best way out of this corruption soaked continent called Nigeria, each time u read an article u can say where the writer comes from, they write with sentiment &tribalism, forgetting that the warlord hare supporting is part of the decay. Be he Tinubu, Jonathan, Ango Abdulahi, Aneineh Eze Ife or Obi, they all know how to settle themselves, sharing of the cake has no tribalism, it is among the have none , the down trodden that tribalism exist. Corruption exist in all tribes, Without taking side we should use this medium daily to attack corruption. among Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Fulani, Ijaw, Uhrobo etc,
If we are all able to collectively attack corruption , we shall one by one eliminate the cycling of the old corrupt politicians, like Jonathan ,Tinubu, Kanu orji,and David Mark. .
The whole Federal civil service is the breeding pot for corruption, if revolution can not come because , we are so divided, let us use this medium to sensitize the whole nation for a change and stop attacking ,abusing& insulting one another and the elderly, who are very corrupt.
Let us all think on how to make the center less attractive, the President should earn less salary, senate and the house should be on part time, or voluntary service for 1/4 of the year, the do or die politics will die down , political

mchuks721

Is this discussion not too early?

Rukiatu Ibrahim

Forget this man, he just need contract . He is broke right now. The question is what did he do for the Northerner? He want to be relevant

EDNAKEMI

Thank you my dear sister. I some time wonder what type of God created the Nigerian in general and in particular these so called elders of the North. When people do things the same way all the time for ages and fail, the human’s faculty that is creative demands some modification in terms of change for positive result. But in Nigeria the the opposite is the case. What Nigeria needs presently, and urgently too, is a loose center where the presidency is made less attractive while the local government system is empowered while on the other hand lessen the governors powers too to manipulate the affairs of the local governments. In a nutshell, Nigeria needs a confederation.

FORFAKA

The quota system cattle driver Professor, Alhaji Ango Abdullahi and his cohorts are at it againg roiling the polity.
By the way which North is the Professor talking about ? The old fool doesn’t know that the entire people of the Middle-Belt ,have already thrown their weight again behind
our dear President.With the South East and South South along with the Middle-Belt
behind President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan,he can jolly well do without any fucking

support from the Nama people.And for sure our Yoruba cousins of the South West will

certainly put their hands where their mouths are by voting for our dear Presidnt.
Professor Ango Abdullahi should pause a bit and ask himself if it isn’t enough that
his so called North has governed Nigeria for a total of 38 donkey’s years of our 53
years of independence?
Why do the Abokis have such deep-seated contempt and hatred against us Christians
and Southerners in particular.About a week ago,Yoruba traders (most of them muslims) were brutally murdered in cold blood by Professor Ango Abdullahi’s Nama
people.Down with Hausa/Fulani hegemony!

Omotolaaraujo

I hope this man does not speak for people that live in the Northern region. I’m so sick of these old relics saying that people in the North and South don’t have the same goals and priorities. I hope people don’t allow this degenerate to speak for them. It’s time Nigerians moved forward.

KSA

I hate commenting on matters that has to do with my beloved country Nigeria, but wait a minute why are the northerners so into tribalism, am sorry to say though but it is just greed and selfishness that these northerners have… I don’t talk much but come 2015 the person to win is Jonathan because every other aspirant will be full of sheet, allow Jonathan complete his tenure, allow him to work! The northerners sponsor BH and they are sensible to be killing their own blood, no one has the right to kill anyone, they are evil people and will turn Nigeria to an islamic country if that chance is given to them, Nigerians vote wisely, the devil you know is better than the angel you do not know! Advise to you all, vote for who you feel will move the nation forward, Jonathan stopped Godfatherism and that is something i like, even in his state he told people contesting to work with the state party and not him, i am a witness to that… Allow him work, i know he is the nightmare to the north all because A NOBODY FROM AN UNKNOWN PLACE IN A KNOWN COUNTRY WAS PICKED TO RULE THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE HIGH AND MIGHTY, this Jonathan has cause sleepless nights for people because he is the president today, truth be told he is chosen by God to help Nigeria so come 2015 whether the north agrees to vote for him or not he will WIN…

Note: I am not supporting GEJ but so far he is trying and deserves a second tenure!

akara

You spoke very very well.. But GEJ needs to put a lot of efforts.. I believe he is slacking too much.. Nigerians are not praying for a miracle president or expecting th president to perform miracles.

Nigerians urgently and compulsorily need the president to perform a miracle… It’s just that simple..

Edu/Stuttsgat

How many miracles did Yoroba OBJ perform?

IamAworiAndYoruba

It appears you want Jonathan to become president in 2015, without any vote from the north and SW. Time will tell.

jzun

Yes he was chosen in 2011 by God to be a national leader and to move Nigeria forward, but he has repudiated God with his misrule and his tenure shall terminate in 2015 because he has repudiated God by his misconducts.

4Miner

Apart from insults and namecalling, what else is there to say, can’t we advocate leadership that will rise above tongue and operate our country as if it’s his or her own village? Enlist your candidate and let us see if there is enough quality to warrant our vote and stop this north/south rubbish.

TUNDE

NEF publicly campaigeD against GEJ in 2011, yet he won! NEF is made up of mostly tired old men who have lost political credibility over the years due to their divide-and-rule tactics. They’re not alone though; they are in the same boat as OHANEZE, AFENIFERE, IJAW ELDERS FORUM, ETC, ETC

Dr Pat KOlawole Awosan

Nigerians must be democratic enough by voting for the most qualify,competent,capable and people oriented presidential candidate in 2015 not just wasting their votes and taking some stipend of change-bribes and throwing away their votes again in 2015.
Regardless of your ethnic/tribal.religion i will encourage all Nigerians to shed off their ethnic/tribal/religion tag and vote on merit moreover judging from the performance or no performances of the current president Jonathan and particularly PDP and its high degree of corruption practices,Nigerians must try and vote for an opposition political party-APC judging opposition held states good performances in developmental projects and welfare of civil servants.Enough of Nigeria becoming a one-party PDP-state-nation.

deri

Original Ijaw boy • THANK U-ONCE AGAIN-4 REMINDING THEM- IN THEIR FULANI NORTH–BUT WHO CARES IF THE FULANIS DON’T VOTE FOR JONATHAN–WE YEARN FOR SEPARATION NOT ANOTHER FAKE ELECTION FOR THE TRIPOD
−

Your Arewa Peoples Congress (APC) is a Floundering Ship in Mid Ocean. More worrisome is that it is rudderless. Mercy on the souls on board

Timothy yerima

CAN THE NORTHERNERS ACCOUNT FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP SINCE INDEPENDENCE? IF NOT, IS IT NOW THEIR EYES ARE OPENED TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.? GOWON, IBB, SHAGARI, BUHARI, ATIKU,ALL THE ARMY GENERALS, THE IGP’s, CUSTOMS GENERALS, NNPC GMD’s, FORMR CIVILIANS/ MILITARY GOVERNORS OF THE NORTH AND THE LIKE OF DANGOTE CAN SALVAGE THE NORTH WITHOUT A NORTHERNANT BEING A PRESIDENT. THE NORTH SHOULD THINK TWICE ON EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW/DO.

adefowora

Help, Ango has gone mad again.

obiokorp

Drastic situations need drastic solutions! The North may employ previous “quota” vice chancellors to speak for them. The truth remains that no matter the color or shape of their mouthpiece, s/he will spawn the same extinct ideas of the North for Nigeria. The fact remains, the Hausa/Fulani civilization has not progressed beyond the middle ages, and their mindset is seriously challenged in the contemporary Nigeria environment. I wonder what the rest of Nigeria can do to wean the North from its incessant dependence on Niger Delta crude oil–the only economic sustenance of Nigeria.

naija_boy

If the so-called NEF can for once talk about the dilapidated infrastrcture in the north and offer solutions or recommend some framework to turn around the appalling state of education in the north, maybe people will begin to take them seriously..

tony are

This mumu pensioner have spoken for the north. Let me give the useless man vital statistic that his professorship can’t work out. In 2003, North-West didn’t vote for Obsanjo, he won. In 2011, North-West didn’t vote for Jonathan, he won. So, Ango Abdullah, go and rot in hell…..no man needs North-West votes to be president

Wazobia

You people don’t know anything, we are bonded for life. With oil or without oil, Nigeria shall remain. Right all your grammar and abuse me if you like, no shaking. We are brothers, we are family. Long live Nigeria.

Legend

Nobody ever thought that the old Soviet Union could ever disintegrate, but it happened , no big deal. In Yugoslavia, Sudan, the same thing. There are many examples of large country’s splitting. It’s time for Nigeria to hold a referendum on splitting. It would be better to peacefully go separate ways. That way, so called Northern elders can continue to imbibe poverty and wretchedness on their people. They can become the Afghanistan of Africa because they are so backward.

Ajayi olupona

For those who are busy weeping over the error of Britain , for those who feels that the solution is the disintergration of the federation , they should ask their local politicians what happened to all the shared oil money all this years and why do we have more beggars in Northern Nigeria ? Anyway , i am from an oil producing state and therefore ready for anything .

GEJ 2015

I’m sad because Judging by this elder’s picture, it doesn’t look as if he will live to see GEJ take over 2015. I’d really love him to.

Conern

CONCERNED

The North should think twice in its stand on Jonathan’s 2015 ambition, if at all he has. The chance that this man is enjoying now is a very rare one for South-South Zone. North needs to remember that it has enjoyed the state house long enough as to allow the South-South to have a little taste of that position.

Four years is not a life time, neither for an individual, talk less for a nation. The North should exercise patience and understanding, no matter how this man, a South-Southerner got into the Aso Rock. The insistence of the North calls to mind the evil of Born-to-Rule mentality. All parts of Nigeria should be given the chance to govern Nigeria.

Jonathan’s governance record has been quite good when compared to many of his predecessor in Aso Rock, let us face the fact, honestly. He has to faced the greatest challenges of governance more than two of his predecessors put together and yet he has his head above water.
Patience I call the North for. Rather help him to solve the problem of insecurity in the North and elsewhere in the country.

the masked one

For all I care, Prof Ango Abdullahi is a product of quota system and federal character, and for that matter a beneficiary of the Arewa Peoples Republic stranglehold on power. Therefore, I can never ascribe any intellectual prowess to his name. Ango Abdullahi’s comment is the sort Chuba Okadigbo would’ve described as a ” scurrilous drivel coming from a lazy intellectual”.

Dgitasamyoung Commander Onwu

One thing Nigerians forgot to understand is 2015 will not be 1967 to 1970 when Ndigbo were enslaved in Nigeria. I will give President Johnathan all it takes for him to be the President come 2015. Then 2019 Ndigbo will be the President of Nigeria. We shall all live to see, to know who is the Commander? I fought the battle 1998 against Gen Sani Abacha and his men then I was young but today after my 14 years in the training Nigerians must see the power of Christ come 2015 and 2019. To glory of Christ I fought the battle In Kuwait 1990 that led to Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In USA 2008 and 2012. North with their Boko Haram will see war and run away. War Saw North will see war.

new

I wonder how the show call northern leader think. For how many years have they been in power? Presidency is meant for every nigerians who have the capacity to rule. Stop all this act now

paano asika

Please social media especially the ‘Punch’ should as a matter of importance try to be censoring some people post on this platform. Such should not be where people with fake name and address gather to called each other names. Imagine some pointless views attacking and making jest of sound point of view Prof P Nwangwu made…this is serious!

Dgitasamyoung Commander Onwu

If North seceded from Nigeria I will become a General in the army to fight against them. They killed us for the sake of One Nigeria. They had the government since 1970 to 1999, looted the treasury made their son the richest Billionaire in Africa still they are not happy. You greedy North do you forgot how Dr Azikiwe died for your sake, how he sold Ndigbo to you? When your elders said they were not ready for independence still Dr Azikiwe refused to let you go and helped you to formed government 1960. Enough is enough. We must have our share in Nigeria, like it or not or my angels will set you on fire.

Baba Otu

mr. Ango should go and do himself, he has the guts to say that the South owes the north a moral duty, what moral duty. mr. Ango wants the south and the oil producing area to be the slaves of the south. Now the south knows the nonsense the north has been perpetrating all along. If the south south politicians sells us short, they would pay for it. I hope they are listening. Mr. ango should understand, the time for northern slavery has gone, meaning using the south as foot mat, is over. JEG would be running for the head office in the year 2015, and ready to win. Go JEG,all the way. You need all the luck from me.

Spokesperson for the Senate Unity Forum, Senator Kabir Marafa, saying his colleagues passed a vote of confidence in Dr. Bukola Saraki’s senate leadership in order to spite President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress leadership.